Meaning not yet researched.
Cory: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #59 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #59 in 1988; #1,245 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Cory in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,245 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #59.
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Cory: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 boys in 2025. Peak: #59 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 6,450 (1989).
In 2025, 160 US boys were named Cory, making it the 1,245th most common boys’ name of the year, down 149 places from #1,096 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 197 boys named Cory in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #59, reached in 1988. The most boys given the name in a single year was 6,450, in 1989. For comparison, it was #723 in 2015 and #1,038 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cory in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 7 babies. In all, 133,778 US babies have been given the name, 4.9% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 46,429 babies named Cory.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,286 US boys were named Cory; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 320. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,675 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cory ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #723 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kory (15,723 babies since 1880), Cori (13,431 babies since 1880), Corrie (9,851 babies since 1880) and Corey (194,076 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Koury, Cor and Couri are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Coco, Cordy and Ree.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Koury (62), Cor (7), Couri (5), Qori (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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 8 | #723 | #485 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #861 | #759 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,013 | #640 |
| California | 19 | #1,088 | #797 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,158 | #912 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,258 | #799 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,277 | #589 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,306 | #567 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,391 | #923 |
| New York | 7 | #1,445 | #725 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,576 | 160 | #1,245 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,004 | 197 | #1,096 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,155 | 174 | #1,179 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,503 | 182 | #1,144 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,133 | 221 | #991 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,079 | 245 | #910 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,894 | 244 | #900 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,758 | 242 | #894 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,538 | 301 | #778 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,087 | 320 | #760 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,631 | 341 | #723 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,310 | 357 | #696 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,702 | 377 | #648 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,743 | 373 | #641 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,887 | 362 | #650 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,980 | 438 | #578 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,153 | 544 | #499 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,178 | 608 | #457 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,152 | 706 | #416 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,646 | 653 | #429 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,599 | 773 | #373 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,482 | 817 | #349 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,975 | 924 | #320 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,205 | 1,119 | #275 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,883 | 1,263 | #260 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,682 | 1,496 | #227 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,575 | 1,704 | #198 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,503 | 2,075 | #164 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,050 | 2,083 | #166 |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,885 | 2,446 | #144 |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,532 | 3,010 | #123 |
| 1994 | 108 | #1,466 | 3,529 | #102 |
| 1993 | 135 | #1,266 | 3,997 | #94 |
| 1992 | 170 | #1,069 | 4,436 | #83 |
| 1991 | 158 | #1,123 | 5,121 | #74 |
| 1990 | 192 | #971 | 5,765 | #67 |
| 1989 | 210 | #877 | 6,450 | #61 |
| 1988 | 206 | #862 | 6,266 | #59 |
| 1987 | 210 | #830 | 5,849 | #62 |
| 1986 | 260 | #696 | 4,871 | #68 |
| 1985 | 184 | #872 | 3,868 | #81 |
| 1984 | 215 | #754 | 3,505 | #83 |
| 1983 | 183 | #838 | 3,404 | #83 |
| 1982 | 177 | #871 | 3,237 | #93 |
| 1981 | 213 | #765 | 3,352 | #90 |
| 1980 | 213 | #772 | 3,556 | #83 |
| 1979 | 240 | #707 | 3,587 | #82 |
| 1978 | 283 | #604 | 3,842 | #73 |
| 1977 | 271 | #619 | 4,259 | #67 |
| 1976 | 243 | #635 | 3,182 | #83 |
| 1975 | 222 | #675 | 2,573 | #99 |
| 1974 | 175 | #782 | 2,328 | #114 |
| 1973 | 159 | #824 | 2,034 | #128 |
| 1972 | 145 | #878 | 1,957 | #136 |
| 1971 | 102 | #1,141 | 1,985 | #150 |
| 1970 | 103 | #1,135 | 1,762 | #164 |
| 1969 | 91 | #1,170 | 1,783 | #160 |
| 1968 | 61 | #1,454 | 717 | #274 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,663 | 438 | #359 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,957 | 444 | #356 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,774 | 450 | #361 |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,535 | 430 | #381 |
| 1963 | 71 | #1,307 | 394 | #405 |
| 1962 | 77 | #1,259 | 441 | #381 |
| 1961 | 69 | #1,343 | 446 | #373 |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,314 | 353 | #427 |
| 1959 | 64 | #1,339 | 311 | #454 |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,352 | 282 | #469 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,509 | 284 | #457 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,874 | 184 | #560 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,699 | 209 | #508 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,084 | 139 | #628 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,442 | 63 | #905 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,698 | 46 | #1,067 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,258 | 63 | #884 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,680 | 46 | #1,038 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,431 | 26 | #1,443 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,724 | 26 | #1,434 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,092 | 25 | #1,491 |
| 1946 | — | — | 17 | #1,776 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,442 | 31 | #1,187 |
| 1944 | — | — | 17 | #1,697 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #1,997 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,063 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,605 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,646 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,542 | — | — |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,563 |
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).