Quinn or Cora

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We are currently stuck between these 2 for our baby girl! I love Quinn and it goes really nice with our surname but my husband loves Cora and isn’t too keen on Quinn.

I like Cora as well but I’m not 100% on it yet.

What do you like better?

Like Quinn don’t like Cora, if you’re not sold on Cora and he’s not on Quinn then choose something else.

I live in the UK and the only people called cora I'm aware of are elderly drunks

Neither, both are naff.
Cora is a name for those who are already deceased.
Quinn is twee and reminds me of queef.

Love Quinn and I'd definitely say it's a girls name. It's apparently a unisex name but you only need to do a quick Google to discover that it's definitely on the rise as a girl's name.

Cora also lovely and wouldn't even cross my mind to link it to Coronavirus.

If you find a name you love and agree on, I'd just go for it. Someone is always going to comment and say they don't like it or suggest some alternative they think it's nicer.

Quinn is a common Irish surname. It’s like people fighting over whether Smith is male or female...it’s neither, but it’s a really weird choice as a first name, especially if you have no Irish connections.

Find it so weird that there is a massive trend for English people to use Irish surnames as first names but the same people probably complain that they can’t pronounce Irish first names and so they shouldn’t be used.

Go for Cora.

Cora is delightful and it fits for a young child and an adult. My previous experiences of the name Quinn aren’t the best meaning I may be rather biased but I feel it is too much like a surname or a name of a villain

Find it so weird that there is a massive trend for English people to use Irish surnames as first names but the same people probably complain that they can’t pronounce Irish first names and so they shouldn’t be used.

Yes to all of your post (but especially this). Quinn is such a strange choice for a first name. It's just a bog standard surname.

Cora is alright...not mad about it...but at least it is an actual first name so is streets ahead of the other one.

I have a Cora and she’s certainly not an elderly drunk Aclh13!

Cora is lovely. Not keen on Quinn, seems like a boy's name to me.

I know a 5 year old Cora. She is utterly vivacious

Cora is much nicer

I think it's because names like Quinn, Casey and Kennedy were popularised in America. They conformed to an American trend or taste or sound. So they have a very different feel to names like Clodagh and Diarmuid for example. Those names dont fit in with any trend. Bell tones. Presidents. Unisex. Just feel quite random to English people I suppose.

Definitely not Quinn/quim.
I don’t like Cora either, but would go for it if it’s a choice between the 2.

I teach a child called Quinn. All the kids at school call her Quim. Just don't (even though it's a lovely name )

@DuchessOfSofa I think you’re right that it comes from America. But at least originally (not anymore!) people used those names because they were family names. Like Rooney Mara for example - Rooney is her mum’s maiden name (and actually her middle name I think). Now there’s literally no Irish connection and I suspect most people don’t even know they’re using an Irish surname.