as a First Name
Name apparently coined by James Fenimore Cooper for one of the characters in The Last of the Mohicans (1826). It could represent a Latinized form of Greek Korē ‘maiden’. In classical mythology this was a euphemistic name of the goddess of the underworld, Persephone, and would not have been a well-omened name to take. Nevertheless, this has not proved an obstacle to its use in the English-speaking world.
| 827th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 39,780
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 72,217
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Cora per capita
- 1910
- marked the height of its popularity
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