Baby Name: Cora

Possibly invented by writer James Fenimore Cooper for a character in his 1826 historical novel, "The Last of the Mohicans," adapted into a film in 1992. Could also be the feminine form of Corey or the short form of Corinna. A classic name that hit its peak prior to the turn of the 20th century. Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., used a form of the name. Heart, Maiden