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Cora vs Corvin

American parents have registered 156,415 Coras since 1880, against 808 Corvins. Cora is still ahead, with 2,428 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cora against Corvin, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cora Corvin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Cora has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Cora had 844 and Corvin had 46.

Side by side

  Cora Corvin
Total US births 156,415808
Most in one year 3,60253
Babies in 2025 2,42824
Estimated living today 75,000780
Median age today 1213
Peak year 20192009
Best rank 71st girls2,401st boys
Rank in 2025 113th4,249th
First recorded 18801926
Girls / boys 156,028 / 3870 / 808

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Cora Corvin
England and Wales 4,8454
Switzerland 16194

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cora and Corvin.