Meaning not yet researched.
Kori: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 260 in 2025. Its best rank was #631 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #631 in 2016; #978 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Kori in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#978 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #631.
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Kori: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 260 girls in 2025. Peak: #631 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 475 (2016).
In 2025, 260 US girls were named Kori, making it the 978th most common girls’ name of the year, down 84 places from #894 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 299 girls named Kori in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #631, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 475. For comparison, it was #646 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kori in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 16,387 US babies have been given the name, 90% of them girls and 9.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,660 babies named Kori.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,739 US girls were named Kori; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 475. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kori ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #474 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), Kory (15,723 babies since 1880), Cori (13,431 babies since 1880) and Korey (12,863 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Korrie, Korri and Kouri 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: Korrie (828), Korri (640), Kouri (51), Korii (30), Kurie (5), Quori (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 Kori 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 7 | #474 | — |
| Mississippi | 6 | #483 | #401 |
| Virginia | 16 | #502 | #447 |
| Alabama | 10 | #508 | #345 |
| Georgia | 22 | #522 | #436 |
| Missouri | 11 | #538 | #337 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #567 | #425 |
| Maryland | 9 | #579 | #221 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #650 | #379 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #681 | #647 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #792 | #355 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #810 | #444 |
| Michigan | 9 | #826 | #750 |
| Indiana | 7 | #875 | #1,025 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #926 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #971 | #785 |
| Florida | 16 | #979 | #819 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,095 | #562 |
| New York | 10 | #1,373 | #949 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,587 | #488 |
| California | 7 | #2,646 | #1,467 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 260 | #978 | 27 | #4,003 |
| 2024 | 299 | #894 | 26 | #4,147 |
| 2023 | 345 | #810 | 28 | #3,949 |
| 2022 | 388 | #747 | 27 | #4,050 |
| 2021 | 433 | #676 | 41 | #3,004 |
| 2020 | 350 | #779 | 28 | #3,772 |
| 2019 | 380 | #745 | 35 | #3,307 |
| 2018 | 383 | #735 | 25 | #4,162 |
| 2017 | 426 | #685 | 32 | #3,489 |
| 2016 | 475 | #631 | 28 | #3,845 |
| 2015 | 444 | #646 | 26 | #4,037 |
| 2014 | 340 | #814 | 28 | #3,740 |
| 2013 | 268 | #943 | 18 | #5,087 |
| 2012 | 226 | #1,095 | 26 | #3,958 |
| 2011 | 240 | #1,038 | 23 | #4,295 |
| 2010 | 215 | #1,140 | 22 | #4,454 |
| 2009 | 221 | #1,147 | 27 | #3,882 |
| 2008 | 221 | #1,162 | 20 | #4,830 |
| 2007 | 232 | #1,118 | 27 | #3,851 |
| 2006 | 205 | #1,186 | 30 | #3,487 |
| 2005 | 198 | #1,166 | 25 | #3,779 |
| 2004 | 173 | #1,255 | 26 | #3,593 |
| 2003 | 179 | #1,197 | 23 | #3,792 |
| 2002 | 168 | #1,207 | 29 | #3,148 |
| 2001 | 182 | #1,150 | 28 | #3,192 |
| 2000 | 218 | #972 | 24 | #3,483 |
| 1999 | 232 | #910 | 27 | #3,068 |
| 1998 | 286 | #755 | 32 | #2,627 |
| 1997 | 281 | #755 | 29 | #2,720 |
| 1996 | 291 | #721 | 20 | #3,489 |
| 1995 | 299 | #704 | 29 | #2,596 |
| 1994 | 342 | #639 | 35 | #2,282 |
| 1993 | 323 | #677 | 42 | #1,956 |
| 1992 | 333 | #666 | 31 | #2,385 |
| 1991 | 277 | #750 | 46 | #1,759 |
| 1990 | 254 | #794 | 41 | #1,891 |
| 1989 | 284 | #700 | 57 | #1,471 |
| 1988 | 230 | #804 | 38 | #1,804 |
| 1987 | 225 | #786 | 45 | #1,581 |
| 1986 | 242 | #737 | 34 | #1,818 |
| 1985 | 205 | #805 | 22 | #2,396 |
| 1984 | 157 | #938 | 23 | #2,266 |
| 1983 | 164 | #915 | 17 | #2,741 |
| 1982 | 187 | #839 | 28 | #1,967 |
| 1981 | 191 | #826 | 20 | #2,456 |
| 1980 | 174 | #883 | 38 | #1,581 |
| 1979 | 217 | #747 | 32 | #1,770 |
| 1978 | 231 | #688 | 24 | #2,044 |
| 1977 | 255 | #646 | 26 | #1,929 |
| 1976 | 187 | #770 | 17 | #2,559 |
| 1975 | 171 | #805 | 20 | #2,257 |
| 1974 | 209 | #703 | 21 | #2,085 |
| 1973 | 190 | #738 | 17 | #2,365 |
| 1972 | 123 | #980 | 9 | #3,496 |
| 1971 | 111 | #1,089 | 15 | #2,510 |
| 1970 | 99 | #1,175 | 16 | #2,360 |
| 1969 | 110 | #1,046 | 5 | #4,734 |
| 1968 | 71 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,849 | 5 | #4,351 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,568 | 5 | #4,370 |
| 1961 | 47 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,583 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,621 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,103 | — | — |
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).