Cora

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Cora is ranked 102nd among girls in 2024 (2,570 births). Its best rank was 15th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024: #102down 9 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2,5700.16% of girls
Peak year: 20193,601 births
Best rank: #15in 1880
Since 1880: 153,577people given the name

Babies named Cora, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

153,577 girls have been named Cora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 3,601 births — 0.21% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 103 → 102).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 2010s alone account for 18%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Cora
1880s	11,954
1890s	12,880
1900s	10,372
1910s	15,317
1920s	16,161
1930s	11,253
1940s	8,749
1950s	5,869
1960s	3,393
1970s	2,094
1980s	2,224
1990s	3,322
2000s	7,745
2010s	27,813
2020s	14,431

In 2019, its biggest year

Cora was the 71st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.

Names that rose and fell with Cora

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.