Kora Girl
How popular is Kora?
#490 girl name in 2025
603 baby girls were named Kora in the US in 2025, making it the 490th most popular girl name.
Kora popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #490 for girls (▼ 1 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 603 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+31% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #622 in 2015, #488 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (682 girls) |
| Highest rank | #465 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1942 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Kora counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Cora family of names ranked #101 for girls in 2025 (#92 the year before), with 3,230 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cora | 2,428 | 75% |
| Kora | 603 | 19% |
| Korra | 153 | 5% |
| Korah | 25 | 1% |
| Corah | 14 | 0% |
| Corra | 7 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Kora is most popular
Babies named Kora per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- North Dakota: 2.4 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Alaska: 1.2 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Iowa: 1.1 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- Nebraska: 1.1 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Montana: 1.0 per 1,000 (13 girls)
Kora by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,620 |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,272 |
| 1970s | 55 | #6,188 |
| 1980s | 121 | #4,014 |
| 1990s | 419 | #1,937 |
| 2000s | 1,106 | #1,502 |
| 2010s | 4,092 | #472 |
| 2020s | 3,725 | #465 |
Girl names about as popular as Kora
Questions
- Is Kora a boy or girl name?
- Kora is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Kora were girls.
- How popular is the name Kora?
- 603 baby girls were named Kora in the US in 2025, making it the 490th most popular girl name.
- When was Kora most popular?
- Kora peaked in 2022, when 682 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #465 in 2022.
- How many people are named Kora?
- 9,541 babies have been named Kora in the US since 1880. We estimate about 9,483 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Kora most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Kora was most common in North Dakota, at 2.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.