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Cora - Real name?!

36 replies

pommedechocolat · 11/08/2011 12:08

We are pg with number 2 and have name sorted for if it's a boy. A girl is harder - we used up our one idea on dd!

Currently dh is favouring Jessie but I love, love Cora. He likes it but says he's never heard of it before and thinks lots of people will wonder if it's a real name?

I think he's being silly - am I right??

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ilovemydogandMrObama · 11/08/2011 13:51

dd1's best friend is cora. Her mother is Spanish, so not sure if it's more popular in Spain?

blue2711 · 11/08/2011 13:49

How very strange, I just came on here to post a thread about Cora too! It's my favourite for DC2, if it's a girl. There's a Cora in Downton abbey. Love it. Just hope it doesn't get too popular...

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LaWeasel · 11/08/2011 13:40

There's a Cora in the recentish film Music and Lyrics as well, I think it's a great name.

SaffronCake · 11/08/2011 13:23

But anything people haven't heard before they wonder if you made it up. They get over it pretty quickly. To the best of my knowledge Cora was coined by James Fenimore Cooper for a character in the classic Last of the Mohicans. The Greek Kore (meaning maiden) might be the inspiration. Kore was a nickname for Persephone, goddess of the underworld...

You definately didn't make it up.

BlueChampagne · 11/08/2011 13:09

Also in Gormenghast

ghosteditor · 11/08/2011 12:11

It's lovely - a friend from school has two little girls and her eldest is Cora. Very sweet, solemn child! I like the name quite a lot.

CandiceMariePratt · 11/08/2011 12:11

Cora is a lovely name

mistressploppy · 11/08/2011 12:11

There was a Cora Bellinger in a Jeeves and Wooster story (P.G. Wodehouse); I can't remember which one though...

I think it is a 'real' name. I like it. I like Dora too (that was a character in a Dickens novel - David Copperfield I think) but that's been ruined by the Explorer cartoon thingy

Sausagesarenottheonlyfruit · 11/08/2011 12:10

You are right!

JemimaMuddledUp · 11/08/2011 12:10

One of my best friends is called Cora, she is definitely a real person Grin

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