Cora - Real name?!

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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??

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

You are right!

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

Cora is a lovely name

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.

Also in Gormenghast

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.

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

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...

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

I know a Kore as well

My friend Cora says it Core-Uh (core as in apple).

Reminds me of Glencora (aka Cora) Palliser. Very nice.

Corah is a clothing manufacturing company in Leicester. Don't know if it's still trading, but they used to have a fantastic factory shop!!

Lovely lovely name, very unused...pronounced KOR-ah.

It's a real name,and a lovely one.

Yes it's a real name, not very common in the UK at least, I've only met one and she was half-Spanish. I think it's a really lovely name.

It's a real name but it reminds me of apple corers.

A real name, and an old name too. Was quite popular in Ireland, probably about 70 years ago two of my secondary teachers in the early 80s bore the name I would pronounce it CORE-ah.

Thanks all! I think it's lovely and intend to use it!

I love Coraline but, like the kid in the film, you'd spend your life correcting people who thought you were Caroline.

Oh bloody hell. I love Cora. It's my favourite name for future hypothetical dd (I'm not pg yet), but look how popular it is!

Is this just a MN thing, or is it going to be the next Isla?

I know 2 Coras, both irish and both in their 60s, i just assumed it was irish?

There were only 94 Cora's in 2010 so unless it suddenly gets very popular I should think it's safe!

Phew

I should have thought to check the name stats, amateur mistake. DD's name was top 50 with all the spellings taken into account, so it's not like I'm averse to popular names. But her name doesn't come up that often, and I keep seeing Cora recently.

Tis a lovely lovely name OP.