Cora
Most Poles have never met a Cora: around 30 women carry it, and 2025 brought the first newborns the record shows. A Latin name at root, meaning "maiden" or simply "girl".
Cora Pronunciation
Cora is pronounced TSO-rah (/ˈt͡sɔra/).
What Cora means
Where Cora comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cora comes from Latin, and it keeps a plain meaning: maiden, girl. Roman speech had its word for a young woman, and the name never drifted far from that reading.
English readers met Cora through a novel. James Fenimore Cooper gave the name to Cora Munro in The Last of the Mohicans, published in 1826. The book was read widely, so the name moved into English homes and stayed there for generations after.
Cora carries no diminutive. It stands short and finished, four letters and done.
On a Polish class register the name looks at home, close to Kora, and the final -a marks a girl at a glance. Under it the Latin root still says the same thing: maiden, girl.
How many people are named Cora
1 in 704495 women in Poland is named Cora. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7111 among female names.
Cora's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1505 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Cora as a middle name
Cora is a first name for 32 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1710th, between Claudine (18) and Corinne (18).