How rare is the name Cora?

58,912 people in the United States have the first name Cora, about 1 in 5,127. It ranks #809 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CORA

#809

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
58,912
About
1 in 5,127
This common or more
66.9%
Who bears it

Of the 58,912 people named Cora, 72.8% reported their origin as White, 12.9% as Black and 6.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Cora peaked in 2019, when 3,602 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2019
Births that year
3,602
In 2025*
2,428 ▼33%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 156,415 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Cora by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #39. The largest share of babies named Cora, 25.5%, were born in 2013 or later.

1880s#3912,003
1890s#6512,916
1900s#9410,411
1910s#20015,385
1920s#26716,222
1930s#31611,328
1940s#4298,783
1950s#6565,869
1960s#9473,402
1970s#1,2782,098
1980s#1,3492,224
1990s#1,2303,323
2000s#7767,745
2010s#25827,827
2020s#23416,879
Before 190116.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–2724.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4512.5%
Baby boom 1946–647.2%
Generation X 1965–802.4%
Millennials 1981–962.6%
Generation Z 1997–128.9%
2013 and later25.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Cora is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cora has been most common in Mississippi (2.3×), Alabama (2×), and North Carolina (1.9×), and least common in Hawaii (0.46×).

116,778 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Cora

#807 Ross · 59,341#808 Hugo · 59,062#810 Lucille · 58,884#811 Reagan · 58,855

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cora, most common first.

#496 Cory · 113,340#2,231 Cori · 11,717#25,022 Corra · 381#26,490 Corah · 351#40,711 Core · 182#45,183 Cor · 151#47,857 Coray · 135#49,963 Corea · 122

Also a last name

As a last name, Cora ranks #15,221 of 156,621, with 1,857 people. See Cora as a last name

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