Cora

Meanings

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

1. An indigenous people of west-central Mexico.
2. The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people.

1. A member of the Cora people.

Etymology

Apparently brought up in English literature by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans (1826), but compare a female heroine of this name in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas (1777) and the Ancient Greek epithet Κόρη (Kórē) for Περσεφόνη (Persephónē). It could also refer directly to κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).