Kora

Kora arrives with the clean line of a minimalist sketch, a phonetic respelling of Cora drawn from the Greek Kore, "maiden," an epithet for Persephone herself. The K gives it something sharper and more modern, a name that might belong to a character in a graphic novel or a quiet marine biologist. Cora charted in America long before Downton Abbey reintroduced it to a new generation; Kora, meanwhile, has climbed steadily on its own, now ranked 490. There's mythology in its bones and a twenty-first-century polish on its surface, two syllables that feel like spring soil.