Meaning not yet researched.
Kory: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #360 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #360 in 1988; #3,352 in 2025. About 78% of babies named Kory in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,352 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #360.
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Kory: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #360 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 601 (1989).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Kory, making it the 3,352nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 367 places from #2,985 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 42 boys named Kory in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #360, reached in 1988. The most boys given the name in a single year was 601, in 1989. For comparison, it was #1,812 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Kory, making it the 9,800th most common girls’ name of the year, down 531 places from #9,269 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 11 girls named Kory in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,159, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 50, in 1989. For comparison, it was #6,866 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kory in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 5 babies. In all, 15,723 US babies have been given the name, 8.5% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 4,510 babies named Kory.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 531 US boys were named Kory; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Cori (13,431 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kurry 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: Kurry (12).
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 Kory in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,800 | 35 | #3,352 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,269 | 42 | #2,985 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,738 | 48 | #2,719 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,294 | 63 | #2,285 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,968 | 46 | #2,758 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,212 | 52 | #2,490 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,168 | 58 | #2,352 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,512 | 50 | #2,563 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,195 | 65 | #2,119 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,894 | 72 | #2,002 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,866 | 83 | #1,812 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,306 | 75 | #1,934 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,342 | 75 | #1,891 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,857 | 72 | #1,975 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,717 | 86 | #1,726 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,066 | 80 | #1,824 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,528 | 96 | #1,648 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,542 | 119 | #1,420 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,303 | 125 | #1,347 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,968 | 139 | #1,211 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,184 | 155 | #1,071 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,002 | 143 | #1,109 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,805 | 169 | #964 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,570 | 162 | #975 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,151 | 207 | #811 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,310 | 234 | #733 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,347 | 245 | #689 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,308 | 295 | #623 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,746 | 311 | #585 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,520 | 331 | #558 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,933 | 365 | #529 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,339 | 403 | #504 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,831 | 435 | #483 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,541 | 459 | #471 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,404 | 565 | #403 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,959 | 598 | #388 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,350 | 601 | #373 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,639 | 568 | #360 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,372 | 518 | #371 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,159 | 457 | #396 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,044 | 410 | #425 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,593 | 337 | #458 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,384 | 314 | #472 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,799 | 317 | #475 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,184 | 320 | #465 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,829 | 317 | #471 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,231 | 300 | #475 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,651 | 303 | #462 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,322 | 335 | #434 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,358 | 275 | #479 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,335 | 254 | #502 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,954 | 226 | #530 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,787 | 203 | #557 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,484 | 206 | #557 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,434 | 207 | #564 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,140 | 221 | #546 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,670 | 208 | #543 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,693 | 120 | #691 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,169 | 88 | #779 |
| 1966 | — | — | 77 | #833 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,055 | 105 | #729 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,980 | 73 | #892 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,535 | 80 | #849 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,677 | 77 | #867 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,891 | 64 | #962 |
| 1960 | — | — | 61 | #976 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,341 | 46 | #1,147 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,762 | 44 | #1,166 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,750 | 36 | #1,309 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,666 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,098 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,858 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,276 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,022 |
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).