Korah
Korah was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,162 among girls’ names; 797 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Korah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Korah?
#5,162 among girls’ names, 2025
Korah fell from #3,565 in 2015 to #5,162 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 15.6 per million.
49 babies in 2018, the peak
Korah peaked in 2018, when 49 girls were given it, #3,272 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,162 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,884 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,154 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,417 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,779 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,751 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,693 | 24.4 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,272 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,418 | 26.6 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,964 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,565 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,884 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,928 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,438 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,449 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,334 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,437 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,462 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,588 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,006 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,358 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,203 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,803 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,069 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,813 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,586 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,338 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,720 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,442 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,071 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,578 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,052 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,789 | 6.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,136 | 3.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,602 | 4.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,009 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Korah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Korah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Korah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Korah, and how old are they?
An estimated 790 Americans named Korah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 618 people named Korah (571 women and girls, 47 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 622 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Korah?
Korah is a less common spelling of Cora: SSA has recorded 797 Korah and 156,415 Cora since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 189,617 babies since 1880, Korah is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 3,541 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Korah
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 Korah and names like it
- Compare Korah and CoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKorah peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Korah since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Korah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Korah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.