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core Name Meaning and History

  1. English: unexplained.
  2. Southern Italian: from a short form of the personal names Boncore, literally ‘good heart’, a medieval omen name, or Belcore.

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Distribution of core Families in the US in 1920
Number of core families
 26-50
 9-25
 1-8
 0
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