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Kora

#491 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Cora

Kora has been given to 9,541 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #491 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 682 recorded.

Babies named Kora, 2025

1 in 5,500

Kora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kora: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Cora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kora means

Kora is a variant of Cora.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kora → Cora. The family’s meaning is “maiden”, recorded in English with the source elements kórē.

Origin, language, and formation

Kora is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cora.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,541 girls were recorded with the name Kora between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 682 in 2022; its best national rank was #465 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #489 in 2020 to #491 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #622 in 2015 to #491 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kora?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,500
603 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,670
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#491
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,812 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Koras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kora was born before 2018 — so the typical Kora is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,536
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (4,092).

Is Kora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+131
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.4%
Peak was 2022 (682)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#465
2022

Spellings of Kora

Kora is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 11.1% against Kora's 0.24%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kora is used

Across 2016–2025, Kora was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 485 girls, against 1 in 2,396 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 16,667).

6206 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 485
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 943
  3. 3Iowa1 in 952
  4. 4Montana1 in 1,075
  5. 5Idaho1 in 1,149
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 1,316
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 1,333
  8. 8Kansas1 in 1,351

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Kora is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 66% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kora around the world

Where Kora ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,362
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2012–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1989–2025
    #3,835
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,075
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kora

People whose public names include Kora, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#491
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2
Best rank ever
#465
2022
Peak year
2022
682 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,541
Count in 2025
603

Names similar to Kora

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kora

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kora, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kora

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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