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Corey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 327 in 2025. Its best rank was #52 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #52 in 1977; #778 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Corey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#778 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #52.
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Corey: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 327 boys in 2025. Peak: #52 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 8,003 (1989).
In 2025, 327 US boys were named Corey, making it the 778th most common boys’ name of the year, down 100 places from #678 in 2024. That is 76 fewer than the 403 boys named Corey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #52, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 8,003, in 1989. For comparison, it was #412 in 2015 and #900 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Corey in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 194,076 US babies have been given the name, 4.7% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 56,715 babies named Corey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,282 US boys were named Corey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 770. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,223 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Corey ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #443 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Corrie (9,851 babies since 1880), Cory (133,778 babies since 1880), Kory (15,723 babies since 1880) and Cori (13,431 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Curry, Correy and Corri are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Coco, Cordy and Ree.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Curry (1,655), Correy (1,145), Corri (730), Koree (714), Coree (561), Korry (372), Korea (298), Korrey (113), Coury (57), Corye (49), Korei (27), Courey (25), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 11 | #443 | #258 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #459 | #210 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #482 | #519 |
| Missouri | 11 | #529 | #469 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #544 | #209 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #549 | #483 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #572 | #453 |
| Maryland | 8 | #587 | #278 |
| Ohio | 16 | #603 | #426 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #624 | #316 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #641 | #361 |
| Georgia | 15 | #652 | #305 |
| Indiana | 9 | #678 | #409 |
| Florida | 22 | #708 | #291 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #714 | #287 |
| New York | 20 | #721 | #411 |
| Alabama | 5 | #788 | #254 |
| California | 30 | #812 | #639 |
| Virginia | 8 | #817 | #263 |
| Arizona | 6 | #860 | #569 |
| Michigan | 7 | #924 | #354 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #946 | #327 |
| Illinois | 8 | #952 | #377 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,019 | #518 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,278 | 327 | #778 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,693 | 403 | #678 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,013 | 430 | #642 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,514 | 437 | #635 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,268 | 517 | #552 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,376 | 539 | #530 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,679 | 586 | #491 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,494 | 623 | #465 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,552 | 650 | #467 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,836 | 770 | #415 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,518 | 755 | #412 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,065 | 809 | #384 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,474 | 879 | #358 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,590 | 880 | #351 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,393 | 1,027 | #313 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,652 | 1,011 | #316 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,578 | 1,124 | #294 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,923 | 1,184 | #287 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,612 | 1,403 | #251 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,759 | 1,534 | #234 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,397 | 1,705 | #213 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,934 | 1,674 | #211 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,608 | 1,887 | #199 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,561 | 2,105 | #181 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,515 | 2,245 | #168 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,244 | 2,607 | #149 |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,847 | 2,827 | #135 |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,638 | 3,201 | #115 |
| 1997 | 132 | #1,313 | 3,416 | #110 |
| 1996 | 144 | #1,223 | 4,087 | #94 |
| 1995 | 206 | #915 | 4,976 | #74 |
| 1994 | 225 | #870 | 5,279 | #73 |
| 1993 | 261 | #785 | 5,674 | #68 |
| 1992 | 257 | #790 | 6,140 | #65 |
| 1991 | 295 | #714 | 6,931 | #58 |
| 1990 | 319 | #673 | 7,692 | #56 |
| 1989 | 287 | #697 | 8,003 | #55 |
| 1988 | 323 | #619 | 7,328 | #56 |
| 1987 | 330 | #592 | 6,444 | #57 |
| 1986 | 394 | #522 | 5,762 | #62 |
| 1985 | 378 | #527 | 5,228 | #63 |
| 1984 | 294 | #607 | 4,243 | #69 |
| 1983 | 289 | #608 | 3,967 | #74 |
| 1982 | 273 | #653 | 3,939 | #74 |
| 1981 | 268 | #660 | 4,247 | #69 |
| 1980 | 281 | #651 | 4,437 | #68 |
| 1979 | 290 | #610 | 4,738 | #63 |
| 1978 | 298 | #577 | 4,942 | #61 |
| 1977 | 350 | #526 | 6,041 | #52 |
| 1976 | 283 | #579 | 4,432 | #64 |
| 1975 | 267 | #602 | 3,876 | #71 |
| 1974 | 216 | #682 | 3,382 | #77 |
| 1973 | 214 | #696 | 3,019 | #89 |
| 1972 | 151 | #856 | 2,990 | #95 |
| 1971 | 142 | #917 | 3,766 | #77 |
| 1970 | 120 | #1,029 | 3,814 | #84 |
| 1969 | 142 | #881 | 4,924 | #58 |
| 1968 | 89 | #1,135 | 1,577 | #171 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,684 | 466 | #345 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,634 | 465 | #347 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,831 | 505 | #337 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,840 | 458 | #363 |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,513 | 427 | #384 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,632 | 437 | #383 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,722 | 406 | #395 |
| 1960 | 45 | #1,674 | 303 | #458 |
| 1959 | 56 | #1,437 | 295 | #462 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,659 | 295 | #458 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,359 | 261 | #482 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,547 | 293 | #438 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,746 | 253 | #465 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,528 | 149 | #606 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,747 | 80 | #800 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,407 | 105 | #677 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,947 | 67 | #854 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,020 | 58 | #900 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,952 | 49 | #998 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,394 | 37 | #1,176 |
| 1947 | — | — | 20 | #1,705 |
| 1946 | — | — | 20 | #1,610 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,121 | 21 | #1,454 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,537 |
| 1943 | — | — | 22 | #1,496 |
| 1942 | — | — | 27 | #1,339 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #2,925 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,489 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,238 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,269 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,795 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,336 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,476 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,285 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).