Kora — #492 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kora

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,932 babies named Kora between 1942 and 2024, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kora currently holds the #492 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 682 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kora performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,092 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kora shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 688 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kora in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kora in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,932 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.