Kora

Where Kora comes from

The dictionaries list Kora as a given name — a female given name, modern or (rare) German variant of Cora — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #4,622 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Kora Karvouni born
    Greek actress
  3. 2022
    Peak, #465
    682 babies named Kora — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, modern or (rare) German variant of Cora.
Namesakes
  • Kora Karvouni · Greek actress, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.