Kora
Kora was given to 603 girls in 2025, #491 among girls’ names; 9,541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,460 Americans named Kora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kora is “a female given name, modern or (rare) German variant of Cora.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kora?
#491 among girls’ names, 2025
Kora rose from #622 in 2015 to #491 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.26 to 0.38 per 1,000.
682 babies in 2022, the peak
Kora peaked in 2022, when 682 girls were given it, #465 among girls’ names. The 603 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 603 | #491 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 625 | #489 | 0.39 |
| 2023 | 571 | #532 | 0.36 |
| 2022 | 682 | #465 | 0.42 |
| 2021 | 620 | #504 | 0.38 |
| 2020 | 624 | #489 | 0.39 |
| 2019 | 662 | #472 | 0.39 |
| 2018 | 599 | #522 | 0.35 |
| 2017 | 506 | #593 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 433 | #679 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 462 | #622 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 409 | #693 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 356 | #766 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 261 | #973 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 226 | #1,088 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 178 | #1,323 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 152 | #1,504 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 128 | #1,737 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 123 | #1,757 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,715 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,918 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 91 | #2,024 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,660 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,799 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,890 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,040 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,945 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,294 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,678 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,184 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,178 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,770 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,904 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,724 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,767 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,287 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,064 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,874 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,127 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,630 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,259 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,751 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,506 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,600 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,419 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,526 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,429 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,297 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,929 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,537 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,431 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,730 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,503 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,525 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,987 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kora, and how old are they?
9,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,541 Americans ever recorded as Kora. The median Kora alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 5,518 people named Kora (5,498 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,924 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 72 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 332 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,110 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kora born?
The states with the most babies named Kora are California, Texas and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 66 | #504 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 42 | #719 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 42 | #451 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 28 | #408 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 27 | #264 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #476 | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #267 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #568 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 19 | #418 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 18 | #338 | 1.2× |
Where Kora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kora is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1942 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 202,549 babies since 1880, Kora is the fourth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 603 of their 3,667 babies (16%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kora
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kora and names like it
- Compare Kora and CoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKora peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kora since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.