Meaning not yet researched.
Cori: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #482 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #482 in 1977; #1,932 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Cori in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,932 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #482.
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Cori: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 girls in 2025. Peak: #482 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 397 (1977).
In 2025, 100 US girls were named Cori, making it the 1,932nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 160 places from #1,772 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 114 girls named Cori in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #482, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 397. For comparison, it was #1,800 in 2015 and #4,021 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cori in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 13,431 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 9.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,297 babies named Cori.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,169 US girls were named Cori; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,073 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cori ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,213 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cory (133,778 babies since 1880), Corey (194,076 babies since 1880), Kori (16,387 babies since 1880) and Kory (15,723 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Curie and Coriah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Curie (24), Coriah (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Cori in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,213 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,244 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,439 | #1,464 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,552 | #1,843 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,232 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,204 | #3,535 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,932 | 6 | #10,937 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,772 | 8 | #9,162 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,817 | 7 | #9,947 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,822 | 10 | #7,875 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,571 | 9 | #8,313 |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,833 | 10 | #7,622 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,709 | 9 | #8,344 |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,651 | 13 | #6,415 |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,739 | 9 | #8,288 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,743 | 11 | #7,237 |
| 2015 | 116 | #1,800 | 15 | #5,789 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,131 | 12 | #6,714 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,515 | 7 | #9,854 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,319 | 13 | #6,387 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,128 | 12 | #6,666 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,317 | 10 | #7,697 |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,344 | 13 | #6,500 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,980 | 11 | #7,298 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,006 | 14 | #5,966 |
| 2006 | 95 | #2,072 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,031 | 14 | #5,625 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,647 | 12 | #6,207 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,656 | 11 | #6,333 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,756 | 28 | #3,197 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,525 | 14 | #5,180 |
| 2000 | 165 | #1,204 | 23 | #3,557 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,145 | 23 | #3,393 |
| 1998 | 206 | #982 | 24 | #3,210 |
| 1997 | 194 | #1,001 | 25 | #2,995 |
| 1996 | 228 | #869 | 23 | #3,126 |
| 1995 | 273 | #748 | 28 | #2,634 |
| 1994 | 302 | #693 | 42 | #1,987 |
| 1993 | 289 | #732 | 47 | #1,797 |
| 1992 | 311 | #695 | 31 | #2,372 |
| 1991 | 269 | #767 | 39 | #1,955 |
| 1990 | 298 | #705 | 53 | #1,571 |
| 1989 | 329 | #638 | 48 | #1,645 |
| 1988 | 259 | #720 | 51 | #1,487 |
| 1987 | 322 | #604 | 39 | #1,715 |
| 1986 | 314 | #612 | 24 | #2,307 |
| 1985 | 313 | #606 | 24 | #2,239 |
| 1984 | 288 | #618 | 25 | #2,110 |
| 1983 | 268 | #639 | 30 | #1,831 |
| 1982 | 265 | #669 | 23 | #2,217 |
| 1981 | 295 | #615 | 35 | #1,666 |
| 1980 | 315 | #586 | 30 | #1,862 |
| 1979 | 333 | #555 | 34 | #1,678 |
| 1978 | 337 | #535 | 38 | #1,510 |
| 1977 | 397 | #482 | 38 | #1,494 |
| 1976 | 303 | #557 | 21 | #2,186 |
| 1975 | 298 | #562 | 24 | #1,956 |
| 1974 | 262 | #602 | 28 | #1,702 |
| 1973 | 236 | #638 | 19 | #2,140 |
| 1972 | 201 | #713 | 18 | #2,172 |
| 1971 | 205 | #733 | 12 | #2,842 |
| 1970 | 182 | #779 | 12 | #2,761 |
| 1969 | 146 | #864 | 9 | #3,107 |
| 1968 | 128 | #913 | — | — |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1964 | 79 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1962 | 107 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1961 | 79 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,387 | 5 | #4,142 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,748 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,948 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,021 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,445 | — | — |
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).