Cor
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Expression of surprise
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 54K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 85K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,342 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, hypocoristic form of Cornelis
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cor is read(measured from records)
Cor is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
Expression of surprise.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch28%
a male given name, hypocoristic form of Cornelis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cor in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,342 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Cor | 57 |
| DE Germany | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Cor | 42 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Cor | 39 |
| CA Canada | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Cor | 43 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Cor | 15 |
| BE Belgium | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 3 | — | 14 |
| AT Austria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Cor | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Cor | 7 |
1,342 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cor is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, color
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Cornish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, horn (musical instrument used to produce sound)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, to pour (molten steel, cement, sand, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cor van Goghb. 1867NLDutch draughtsperson and soldier
- Cor van Nusb. 1905NLDutch football player (1905-1980)
- Cor de Grootb. 1914NLDutch musician (1914–1993)
- Cor van Stamb. 1920NLDutch politician (1920–1995)
- Cor van der Hartb. 1928NLDutch footballer and manager (1928-2006)
- Cor van der Gijpb. 1931NLDutch association football player (1931–2022)
- Cor Bromb. 1932NLDutch footballer and manager (1932-2008)
- Cor Boonstrab. 1938NLDutch businessman
- Cor Potb. 1951NLCoach Dutch Under 21 Football team
- Cor van Houtb. 1957NLDutch criminal (1957–2003)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #120,826 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Cor come from?
- a male given name, hypocoristic form of Cornelis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cor?
- In the etymology graph, Connie, Kai and Cornelius are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cor?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Cor a male or female name?
- Cor is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Cor mean?
- In English, Expression of surprise.
- In which country does Cor have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Cor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cor.
- Where is Cor most common?
- Cor is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cor?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,342 people named Cor, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cor?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/corThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.