as a First Name
Late 19th-century coinage. This is one of the group of girls' names taken from the vocabulary of gemstones. Coral is a pink calcareous material found in warm seas; it actually consists of the skeletons of millions of tiny sea creatures. The word is from Late Latin corallium and is probably ultimately of Semitic origin.
| 2,571st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,681
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Idaho
- has the most people named Coral per capita
- 2004
- marked the height of its popularity
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8%
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15%
30-54
30-54
25%
13-29
13-29
52%
0-12
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