Koral
#12,578 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Koral has been given to 903 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #12,578 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Koral, 2025
1 in 474,000
Koral over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Koral?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,578
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Koral sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Koral. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Korals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Koral was born before 2005 — so the typical Koral is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 30.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 903
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (279).
Is Koral 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
- −5,486
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,791
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −8,127
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.22×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 18.9%
- Peak was 2008 (37)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Koral
Koral is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 20.6% against Koral's 0.10%.
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 Koral is used
Across 1910–2025, Koral was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 358,331 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
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. Koral has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Koral around the world
Where Koral 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 & Wales1996–1996#3,795in 1996
- Canada1993–2000#1,996in 2000
- South Australia1986–1986#667in 1986
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Koral by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Koral
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Koral
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.