Koral
Koral was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,578 among girls’ names; 903 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koral by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koral?
#12,578 among girls’ names, 2025
Koral fell from #4,451 in 2015 to #12,578 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 4.4 per million.
37 babies in 2008, the peak
Koral peaked in 2008, when 37 girls were given it, #4,233 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,578 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,092 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,847 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,584 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,846 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,787 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,567 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,393 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,452 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,684 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,451 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,839 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,578 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,478 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,450 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,518 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,526 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,233 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,921 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,212 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,426 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,226 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,071 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,561 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,914 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,598 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,658 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,527 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,448 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,959 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,452 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,353 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,927 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,303 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,532 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,169 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,276 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,796 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,058 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,934 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,742 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,763 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,550 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,092 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,394 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,183 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Koral a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Koral has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Koral: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koral, and how old are they?
An estimated 890 Americans named Koral and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 839 people named Koral (809 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above 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 Koral?
Koral is a less common spelling of Coral: SSA has recorded 903 Koral and 11,162 Coral since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 12,065 babies since 1880, Koral is the second most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 107 babies (6.5%), again the second 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 Koral
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 Koral and names like it
- Compare Koral and CoralBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKoral peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Koral since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Koral.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Koral alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.