Kora

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kora: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kora: Recorded since 1996, it reached #96 in 2021, and it stood at #1,160 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#96highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1998	#3848
1999	#2444
2000	#3912
2001	#3998
2003	#3099
2004	#2530
2005	#3382
2006	#3548
2007	#3667
2008	#4524
2009	#3422
2010	#3156
2011	#2150
2012	#2717
2013	#3160
2014	#3160
2015	#2328
2016	#3609
2017	#1733
2018	#1393
2019	#1349
2020	#1449
2021	#1224
2022	#1452
2023	#1863
2024	#1160

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2022: #100 among girls in New Zealand, #418 among girls in Northern Ireland, #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1452 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2021–2022
Highest recorded position: #96 among girls in New Zealand, in 2021 (recorded 2021–2022).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1160 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Kora appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 291 births with the name.

Kora across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kora's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1160 (2024)	#1160 (2024)	27 of 29	291 (1996–2024)	29 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#430 (2010)	#330 (2012)	#418 (2022)	7 of 13	24 (2010–2022)	5 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#907 (2012)	#716 (2019)	#905 (2022)	3 of 11	10 (2012–2022)	4 (2019)
New Zealand · Girls	#96 (2021)	#96 (2021)	#100 (2022)	2 of 2	85 (2021–2022)	44 (2021)

Kora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kora in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	13	3 of 10	4
2000s	43	9 of 10	5
2010s	122	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	113	5 of 10	23

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 23 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kora appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 2021.

Kora's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1160	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1452	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1224	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1393	23	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#100	41	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#96	44	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#330	5	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #96, first reached in 2021.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in New Zealand in 2021.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Autumn · #96, 30y
Aleisha · #95, 26y
Lilah · #95, 28y
Sheree · #94, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Autumn · #96, 30y
Cohen · #96, 30y
Embla · #96, 33y
Keanu · #96, 30y

Kora was ranked #96 in New Zealand · Girls in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kora and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kora without appearing here.

Kora moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2150 and #5785.
Finley Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #2862 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #5730.
Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #5730.
Kai Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3609 and #3214 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1393 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Kora

Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2150 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #1893.
Meabh Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1224 and #1286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1452 and #1142.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1393 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1349 and #1063.
Aurora Compare
In 2013 they stood at #330 and #383 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #365 and #365.

Moved the opposite way to Kora

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kora went from #3126 to #1160 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kora went from #3126 to #1160 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kora went from #3126 to #1160 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kora went from #3126 to #1160 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Kora

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kora went from #3126 to #1160 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kora went from #3126 to #1160 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kora went from #3126 to #1160 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Kora went from #3126 to #1160 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kora

Kora at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kora across 4 official records

Kora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kora appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kora at a glance

Kora across 4 official records

Kora by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kora appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kora

Kora and the names beside it

Kora moved ahead of

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