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??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Pearl

94 is reasonable. DD's name is always top 20/25 so I'm not averse to popular names either but would like something a little less 'used' this time round. I would not want something totally unused though - hate to think of them always having to spell it.

If it's a boy it will have a top 20 name as well after DH's grandpa. So I will be ultra trendy in that case!

How would you define 'modern coinage'? When is the earliest occurrence that you would class as 'modern'?

It seems to be of Greek origin and to be another name for Persephone as goddess of the underworld according to trusty google!

Behind the Name says:

"Created by James Fenimore Cooper for his novel 'The Last of the Mohicans' (1826). He may have based it on KORË or CORINNA."

Kore is the Persephone name, and Corinna is a very ancient name. Even 1826 isn't terribly recent :)

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Anyway, it's a name I've always been aware of, so I would never think of it as modern in any sense. I suppose all names are "made up", strictly speaking. They had to start somewhere :)

My Mum's name is Cora. Her middle name is Ann. When she was a baby & people used to ask her Mum what her name is she'd say "Cora Ann" & people used to think she was saying "call her Ann" so even to this day, everyone calls her Ann. Bizarre but totally true.

P.S. Cora is a lovely name.