Corah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KOR-a
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Corah is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “maiden”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Corah mean?
Greek: spelling of Cora; from Greek kore, a title of Persephone
“maiden”
Popularised by Cora Munro, a heroine of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
Meaning borrowed from Cora. More on Wiktionary.
Is Corah a girl's or a boy's name?
Corah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Corah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 33% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Corah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Corah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 501 girls in the UK were given Corah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #126, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Corah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 8 | #3,148 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 2 | #6,613 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
How popular is Corah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,489among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Corah, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Corah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 3,241 girls in the US were given Corah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #95, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Corah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,311 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,515 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,794 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,487 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,885 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,347 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,020 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Corah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Caoimhe Fiadh Eden Clodagh Orla Eilidh Aoife Lainey Lyra Maisie Ocean Nevaeh
Other spellings of Corah
Names related to Corah
More Greek names
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Corah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/corah, updated 20 October 2026.