girls:
8.3k births since 1942
#1787 (69th percentile)
overall:
8.3k births since 1942
#2963 (62nd percentile)
The name Kora is the #2,963 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,305 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 61.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,787 (68.7% percentile) for all time with 8,305 births since 1942.
Kora first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (first recorded for girls in 1942). Birth data for Kora is available in 56 out of the 82 years between 1942 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Kora reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 56.5% percentile (ranked #417) with 380 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 380 births per million (ranked 56.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1985, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kora ranks #470 for girls (50.4% percentile) with 324 births per million, which is 85.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kora".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kora is pronounced as KAW-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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