Kor is a boy's name of Turkish origin meaning “official inspector and messenger, courier.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Kor at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
“official inspector and messenger, courier”
About the name Kor
Kor belongs to the Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “official inspector and messenger, courier” — is the sense carried by its Turkish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Kor first appears in Social Security records in 1994. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #9632 in 1994, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 5 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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