When you hear Cora...

[tinytops]

....do you always think Downton Abbey?

[rubyflipper]

No - Lauren and Abi's grandmother on EastEnders.

[MishMooshAndMogwai]

I think eastenders. I'd rather think downtown abbey tbh, I think that's a much nicer association!

[SweetSorrow]

Eastenders here too, but I actually think it's a really pretty name and once you know someone with a name you'll start thinking of them first rather than a TV character

[fishfingersfortea]

No don't watch it but I do think of Agatha Christie! I think there was a Cora in one of her murder mysteries.

[tinytops]

Gaaah! Did not know there was an Eastenders Cora as well! Is she a major character?

[thatstoast]

I do. A friend has a daughter called Cora and she claims never to have seen the show. I remain sceptical about that.

[SweetPeaPods]

Sorry I think of eastenders too

[momb]

Don't watch Easteneders or Downton.
Corah Corman is a pop star/shakira lookalike in the low key (I.e. PG rated) romcon film 'Music and Lyrics', which my children like.

[squoosh]

No I think of my aunt. Cora from DA isn't such a terrible association (even though her weird baby voice is really annoying)

[Tisiphone]

No. It's a gorgeous name, plain, classic and comparatively underused, and our son might have been Cora had he not been a boy.

[LollyLondon]

Mostly Downtown.
It's a beautiful name!

[SwedishEdith]

I think of Last of the Mohicans. Don't watch Eastenders at all. Do watch Downtown but had to think who Cora was for a minute.

[anotherdayanothersquabble]

Cora is a beautiful Irish name.

[Notso]

I think of Corabeth from the Walton's.

[Laquila]

Ahhh, Last of the Mohicans! That's a great association - love that film.

OP, I think of dreadful Cora in Downton, but it doesn't put me off a such such a lovely name. Coralie is also gorgeous.

[FunMitFlags]

Downton

[LouiseBrooks]

Last of the Mohicans here too

[LouiseBrooks]

Oh or the 19th century courtesan Cora Pearl!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Pearl

[tinytops]

I'd forgotten about LOTM! That is a more appealing reference

[Trinpy]

I thought of Agatha Christie too! There is an eccentric Cora who gets murdered in one of the Poirot books.

Nice, underused name though.

[GerundTheBehemoth]

I think of Eastenders, and also of the PG Wodehouse character Cora (Corky) Pirbright.

[squoosh]

I love PG Wodehouse. Would be great fun to live in one of his books for a weekend.

[GentlyBenevolent]

The Waltons. (Am old)

[Didactylos]

cora,with those lips of coral
you and i will never quarrel

saki, the secret sin of Septimius Brope

[Sophronia]

I do think of Downton Abbey.