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Korey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #427 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #427 in 1989; #2,736 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Korey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,736 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #427.
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Korey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 boys in 2025. Peak: #427 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 507 (1990).
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Korey, making it the 2,736th most common boys’ name of the year, down 85 places from #2,651 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 50 boys named Korey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #427, reached in 1989. The most boys given the name in a single year was 507, in 1990. For comparison, it was #1,634 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Korey, making it the 12,584th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,316 places from #9,268 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 11 girls named Korey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,237, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 47, in 1993. For comparison, it was #6,596 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Korey in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 12,863 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,705 babies named Korey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 727 US boys were named Korey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,342 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Korey ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,457 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Corey (194,076 babies since 1880), Cory (133,778 babies since 1880), Kori (16,387 babies since 1880) and Kory (15,723 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Korey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,457 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,792 | #2,035 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,584 | 47 | #2,736 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,268 | 50 | #2,651 |
| 2023 | — | — | 65 | #2,209 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,832 | 57 | #2,456 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,547 | 81 | #1,896 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,209 | 82 | #1,822 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,900 | 85 | #1,811 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,384 | 82 | #1,847 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,081 | 72 | #1,990 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,560 | 106 | #1,561 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,596 | 98 | #1,634 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,304 | 94 | #1,648 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,893 | 116 | #1,429 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,435 | 130 | #1,319 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,833 | 124 | #1,360 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,991 | 135 | #1,290 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,165 | 141 | #1,256 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,350 | 170 | #1,094 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,805 | 141 | #1,251 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,034 | 188 | #991 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,620 | 207 | #883 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,639 | 177 | #951 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,329 | 225 | #779 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,362 | 239 | #734 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,469 | 256 | #700 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,073 | 195 | #823 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,755 | 238 | #704 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,724 | 237 | #704 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,189 | 222 | #713 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,121 | 295 | #604 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,706 | 334 | #560 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,573 | 330 | #565 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,619 | 377 | #527 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,111 | 365 | #532 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,809 | 435 | #474 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,672 | 507 | #438 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,735 | 485 | #427 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,828 | 393 | #456 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,463 | 358 | #466 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,244 | 310 | #497 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,376 | 317 | #487 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,958 | 201 | #601 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,191 | 206 | #596 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,217 | 167 | #675 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,488 | 174 | #645 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,773 | 215 | #587 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,389 | 164 | #668 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,900 | 173 | #634 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,237 | 248 | #534 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,629 | 156 | #656 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,843 | 158 | #654 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,797 | 113 | #765 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,867 | 112 | #758 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,224 | 100 | #800 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,433 | 135 | #714 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,500 | 140 | #705 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,257 | 127 | #701 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,615 | 64 | #905 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,294 | 30 | #1,399 |
| 1966 | — | — | 25 | #1,559 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,009 | 21 | #1,755 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,739 | 18 | #1,941 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,603 | 21 | #1,774 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,709 | 25 | #1,605 |
| 1961 | — | — | 25 | #1,620 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,435 | 11 | #2,616 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,744 | 8 | #3,157 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,584 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,742 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,091 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,707 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,102 |
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).