Cora Forename
10,934th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 92,487 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Anguilla
Cora Forename Definition:
A female name. apparently of American origin, and does not occur before the middle of the 19th C.
Cora Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 52,354 | 1:6,925 | 874 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 6,954 | 1:2,431 | 473 |
| Philippines | 99% | 6,408 | 1:16,543 | 1,860 |
| Canada | 100% | 3,626 | 1:9,138 | 1,103 |
| Argentina | 99% | 3,547 | 1:12,059 | 724 |
| Germany | 100% | 2,363 | 1:40,913 | 1,312 |
| England | 100% | 1,830 | 1:30,384 | 1,702 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1,605 | 1:2,893 | 372 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,540 | 1:139,114 | 6,959 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,248 | 1:99,475 | 2,553 |
| Indonesia | 95% | 1,128 | 1:228,691 | 21,382 |
| Spain | 100% | 919 | 1:50,631 | 2,014 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 802 | 1:37,658 | 2,495 |
| South Africa | 100% | 673 | 1:81,029 | 7,083 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 544 | 1:11,063 | 1,111 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 525 | 1:58,691 | 6,867 |
| Chile | 99% | 397 | 1:44,351 | 1,674 |
| Italy | 98% | 362 | 1:168,680 | 2,556 |
| Jamaica | - | 344 | 1:8,381 | 1,032 |
| New Zealand | - | 255 | 1:17,788 | 1,473 |
| Peru | 100% | 254 | 1:125,163 | 4,050 |
| France | 100% | 235 | 1:282,853 | 3,959 |
| China | - | 234 | 1:5,837,845 | 55,948 |
| Romania | 100% | 210 | 1:95,486 | 4,273 |
| Hong Kong | - | 202 | 1:38,380 | 2,432 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 196 | 1:9,404 | 740 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 195 | 1:54,366 | 2,067 |
| DR Congo | 58% | 192 | 1:384,519 | 14,440 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 180 | 1:132,054 | 14,019 |
| Honduras | 100% | 151 | 1:58,394 | 2,477 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 137 | 1:117,580 | 2,375 |
| Barbados | - | 135 | 1:2,147 | 467 |
| Wales | 100% | 135 | 1:22,921 | 1,196 |
| Scotland | 100% | 132 | 1:40,533 | 1,423 |
| Colombia | 100% | 127 | 1:376,212 | 6,628 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 120 | 1:28,564 | 1,326 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 117 | 1:89,156 | 4,839 |
| India | 88% | 111 | 1:10,944,847 | 319,101 |
| Bahamas | - | 110 | 1:3,631 | 643 |
| Switzerland | 99% | 104 | 1:78,976 | 2,778 |
| Liberia | 100% | 103 | 1:42,836 | 2,387 |
| Senegal | 72% | 102 | 1:142,954 | 3,424 |
| Thailand | 100% | 101 | 1:693,721 | 29,342 |
| Australia | - | 92 | 1:148,452 | 4,446 |
| Austria | 100% | 86 | 1:99,002 | 2,090 |
| Belgium | 100% | 67 | 1:171,493 | 4,532 |
| Portugal | - | 65 | 1:160,167 | 3,695 |
| Guyana | 100% | 58 | 1:13,160 | 1,854 |
| Guam | - | 56 | 1:2,869 | 587 |
| Sweden | 100% | 56 | 1:176,034 | 6,380 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 55 | 1:24,753 | 2,750 |
| Nigeria | 99% | 54 | 1:3,288,229 | 56,114 |
| Myanmar | - | 49 | 1:1,060,169 | 627 |
| Malaysia | 87% | 48 | 1:634,374 | 25,654 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 44 | 1:185,280 | 15,927 |
| Qatar | 100% | 43 | 1:55,107 | 6,913 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 41 | 1:2,424 | 514 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Panama | 100% | 38 | 1:102,804 | 5,057 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 38 | 1:188,210 | 12,819 |
| Ecuador | - | 35 | 1:506,483 | 5,397 |
| Malta | - | 34 | 1:12,628 | 1,146 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 33 | 1:3,326 | 600 |
| Norway | 100% | 32 | 1:160,385 | 4,349 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 29 | 1:164,412 | 4,175 |
| Denmark | - | 28 | 1:201,768 | 4,445 |
| El Salvador | - | 28 | 1:226,492 | 3,036 |
| Bermuda | - | 26 | 1:2,493 | 518 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 22 | 1:8,082 | 1,192 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 22 | 1:5,072 | 876 |
| Singapore | 100% | 22 | 1:285,775 | 9,352 |
| Benin | 100% | 19 | 1:556,623 | 17,687 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 13 | 1:4,715 | 843 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 13 | 1:556,677 | 5,170 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 13 | 1:4,220 | 766 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 12 | 1:4,556 | 750 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 12 | 1:2,892 | 588 |
| Japan | - | 10 | 1:12,798,606 | 38,248 |
| Turkey | 80% | 10 | 1:7,780,171 | 28,511 |
| Poland | 100% | 9 | 1:4,225,235 | 4,388 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 8 | 1:1,657 | 292 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Burkina Faso | 67% | 6 | 1:3,063,245 | 50,518 |
| Czechia | 100% | 6 | 1:1,776,027 | 4,577 |
| Finland | 100% | 6 | 1:913,864 | 8,662 |
| Greece | - | 5 | 1:2,186,910 | 11,382 |
| Macau | - | 5 | 1:121,642 | 885 |
| Monaco | - | 5 | 1:7,693 | 1,062 |
| Russia | 67% | 5 | 1:28,846,741 | 73,146 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Egypt | - | 4 | 1:22,975,236 | 27,891 |
| Croatia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Haiti | - | 3 | 1:3,575,651 | 30,510 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Oman | - | 3 | 1:1,369,556 | 7,879 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 3 | 1:5,141,272 | 76,754 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 2 | 1:4,821,472 | 33,780 |
| Belize | 100% | 2 | 1:177,154 | 5,935 |
| Congo | 100% | 2 | 1:2,504,602 | 31,783 |
| Cuba | - | 2 | 1:5,753,276 | 9,613 |
| Georgia | - | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Lebanon | - | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Namibia | - | 2 | 1:1,202,090 | 12,702 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 2 | 1:1,775,150 | 6,781 |
| Uganda | 100% | 2 | 1:20,478,460 | 91,660 |
| Vietnam | - | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Belarus | 100% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Ghana | - | 1 | 1:26,986,216 | 13,521 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Israel | - | 1 | 1:8,402,918 | 45,019 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| South Korea | - | 1 | 1:5,544,421 | 37,250 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| Zambia | - | 1 | 1:15,854,794 | 66,637 |
The alternate forms: Corá (3), Corà (1), Córa (1) & Çora (1) are calculated separately.
Cora (49,488) may also be a surname.
Cora Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. apparently of American origin, and does not occur before the middle of the 19th C.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
This Irish and American name comes from the Greek (Κορη) for ‘a maiden’; its popularity in the U. S. A. may owe much to Byron’s poem (Yonge). Cf. Corinna.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
From Greek κορα, a girl, damsel.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Greek (feminine) - A maiden.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Cora Forename Popularity
Cora Demographics
Cora Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Sample size: 24 (1901)
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