Kora
#490 for girls in 2025, 603 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 682 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,541since 1942
Kora over time
Rank among girls' names. Kora has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #490 | 603 |
| 2024 | #489 | 625 |
| 2023 | #532 | 571 |
| 2022 | #465 | 682 |
| 2021 | #504 | 620 |
| 2020 | #488 | 624 |
| 2019 | #472 | 662 |
| 2018 | #522 | 599 |
| 2017 | #592 | 506 |
| 2016 | #675 | 433 |
| 2015 | #622 | 462 |
| 2014 | #692 | 409 |
| 2013 | #765 | 356 |
| 2012 | #972 | 261 |
| 2011 | #1,086 | 226 |
| 2010 | #1,317 | 178 |
| 2009 | #1,502 | 152 |
| 2008 | #1,732 | 128 |
| 2007 | #1,752 | 123 |
| 2006 | #1,709 | 122 |
| 2005 | #1,911 | 101 |
| 2004 | #2,020 | 91 |
| 2003 | #1,652 | 116 |
| 2002 | #1,791 | 100 |
| 2001 | #1,887 | 92 |
| 2000 | #2,034 | 81 |
| 1999 | #1,940 | 81 |
| 1998 | #2,279 | 62 |
| 1997 | #2,659 | 47 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 |
| 1995 | #3,152 | 36 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
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| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kora! It came in at #4,622, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1963, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kora is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#188 · 1 in 631
- North Dakota#214 · 1 in 611
- Iowa#233 · 1 in 890
- Kentucky#277 · 1 in 1,118
- Nebraska#281 · 1 in 982
Best ever in a state: #99 in North Dakota, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #188 | 10 | 1 in 631 |
| North Dakota | #214 | 5 | 1 in 611 |
| Iowa | #233 | 14 | 1 in 890 |
| Kentucky | #277 | 16 | 1 in 1,118 |
| Nebraska | #281 | 8 | 1 in 982 |
| Minnesota | #284 | 21 | 1 in 1,139 |
| Utah | #353 | 12 | 1 in 1,421 |
| Missouri | #360 | 17 | 1 in 1,528 |
| Wisconsin | #372 | 14 | 1 in 1,613 |
| Nevada | #384 | 7 | 1 in 1,548 |
| Ohio | #401 | 28 | 1 in 1,849 |
| Oklahoma | #439 | 9 | 1 in 1,749 |
| Pennsylvania | #465 | 23 | 1 in 2,224 |
| Tennessee | #481 | 15 | 1 in 2,040 |
| Washington | #488 | 14 | 1 in 2,219 |
| Indiana | #490 | 14 | 1 in 2,150 |
| Oregon | #492 | 7 | 1 in 2,071 |
| Louisiana | #495 | 10 | 1 in 1,988 |
| Alabama | #566 | 8 | 1 in 2,397 |
| Illinois | #589 | 19 | 1 in 2,923 |
| Virginia | #603 | 12 | 1 in 3,003 |
| Massachusetts | #614 | 8 | 1 in 3,150 |
| Colorado | #635 | 8 | 1 in 2,828 |
| Michigan | #663 | 12 | 1 in 3,439 |
| Arizona | #701 | 9 | 1 in 3,341 |
| Florida | #701 | 22 | 1 in 3,907 |
| Maryland | #704 | 7 | 1 in 3,325 |
| California | #709 | 49 | 1 in 3,995 |
| South Carolina | #744 | 5 | 1 in 3,551 |
| Texas | #754 | 40 | 1 in 3,997 |
| North Carolina | #831 | 10 | 1 in 4,538 |
| Georgia | #881 | 10 | 1 in 4,713 |
| New York | #1,358 | 10 | 1 in 8,800 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kora
- 1 spot since 2024 (#489 → #490)
- 2 spots since 2020 (#488 → #490)
- 132 spots since 2015 (#622 → #490)
- Biggest jump: 207 spots in 2013 (#972 → #765)
- Biggest drop: 67 spots in 2023 (#465 → #532)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 2022 at #465 (682 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2012–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,405 girls born in 2022 were named Kora (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,665 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 42.9% of all girls named Kora (4,092) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,622 (1942) | #4,622 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,273 (1966) | #6,099 |
| 1970s | 55 | #6,189 (1979) | #7,464 |
| 1980s | 121 | #4,020 (1989) | #6,149 |
| 1990s | 419 | #1,940 (1999) | #3,235 |
| 2000s | 1,106 | #1,502 (2009) | #1,799 |
| 2010s | 4,092 | #472 (2019) | #772 |
| 2020s | 3,725 | #465 (2022) | #495 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kora in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 3,412 of them was named Kora, which outranked 96.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #588Lilian508
- #590Dorothy507
- #590Elaine507
- #592Kora506
- #592Kaliyah506
- #592Kyra506
- #595Octavia505
- #595Remy505
- #597Kelly504
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.