Entry № 2162 · English origin

Coretta Coretta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ koh-RET-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Maiden (Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "maiden (coretta scott king, civil rights leader)".

Coretta is an English elaboration of Cora, from the Greek korē (maiden). Founded the Martin Luther King, Jr.

Maiden. Day a US federal holiday.

The name in its native script.

Coretta
Transliteration
Coretta
Pronunciation
/ kəˈrɛt.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Coretta stands.

Coretta does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Corettas before her.

Real people
Coretta Scott King
American civil rights leader.
1927 – 2006
In fiction
Coretta
Coretta Scott King Book Award namesake.
1969

Names connected to Coretta.

The number behind Coretta.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Coretta reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.