Cora, also spelled Kora, Korra or Kore, is an honorable name. It means good, virtuous, honest and fair.
Some. companies choose to use a feminine name, like Cora, to induce associations of being just, and having good qualities.
Cora is a version of the Greek name Persephone, a goddess in Greek mythology. She is the goddess of fertility and the underworld.
Why Cora didn’t live up to her name
In The Handmaid’s Tale, one of the Marthas serving kitchen work, is named Cora. Their dress code is a long dress with a bib apron, because they’re constantly doing domestic work, especially in the kitchen. Cora wears a Martha’s dress. She says she would have been a Handmaid to be assigned to bear children, except that she had her fallopian tubes tied, and she is too old to be a wife. It is ironic that a woman named after the Greek goddess of fertility, has become infertile.
Margaret Atwood has intentionally used the name of Cora for a woman who became infertile.
The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985. Females, public institutions, private companies, buildings, parks and installations which were named Cora after the publication of The Handmaid’s Tale, may or may not have been influenced by the character Cora in the book. These entities may be riding the wave of popularity or notoriety of the name.
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