Cora’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Cora
Cora's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Cora's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Cora: meaning and origin
Cora is the Latinized form of Kore, says Behind the Name. Wikipedia explains that the Greek word can mean girl, maiden or daughter, and that it was used as a name for Persephone as the daughter of Demeter. Wikipedia also mentions a rare Gaelic root, cora, meaning just or honest, and Behind the Name adds that Cora can be a short form of Cordula or Corinna.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Coretta, Corie and Corrie as English diminutives, Kora in German and Kore in Greek mythology. Wikipedia adds Korra as a modern variant.
Famous people named Cora
Cora Brown became the first African-American woman elected, rather than appointed, to a US state senate, winning a Michigan Senate seat for Detroit in 1952. Ireland’s Cora Staunton won four All-Ireland titles with Mayo and was an All Star eleven times in Gaelic football, then joined the AFLW’s Greater Western Sydney Giants in 2018 and became one of that league’s great goalkickers.
Is Cora a popular name?
Cora is a Victorian name that has returned. US Social Security data has it at 23rd in the 1880s, when nearly 12,000 American girls were named Cora, and 47th in the 1890s, before it dropped out of the top 200 after the 1930s. It came back at 110th in the 2010s, with more than 27,800 girls, its biggest decade yet, and Behind the Name has it at 113th in 2025.
Cora trivia
Cora owes its English use to a novel. Behind the Name says it was not used as a given name in the English-speaking world until James Fenimore Cooper gave it to a character in The Last of the Mohicans (1826). In the book, Cora and Alice are Colonel Munro’s two daughters, escorted to Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War.
Gift ideas that suit a Cora
- For a reader of classics. A notebook for a heroine of The Last of the Mohicans.
- For a footballer. Training notes, in honor of Cora Staunton.
- For spring. A garden journal for a name linked to Persephone.
- For a new mom. Cora is back in fashion.
How Cora can use it
Any Cora, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Cora can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Cora’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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