Corby
Corby was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,413 among boys’ names; 1,658 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Corby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 39 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Corby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Corby?
#12,413 among boys’ names, 2025
Corby entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,413 in 2025.
64 babies in 1973, the peak
Corby peaked in 1973, when 64 babies were given it (59 boys, #1,058 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,413 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,496 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,040 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 8 | #8,925 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,499 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,058 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,137 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #12,870 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #10,919 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,341 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | under 5 | 10 | #7,062 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #9,791 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 16 | #4,737 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 11 | #6,087 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 18 | #4,236 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 11 | #5,716 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,377 | 24 | #3,205 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 12 | #5,002 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 25 | #2,934 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 32 | #2,398 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 16 | #3,935 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,104 | 12 | #4,755 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 12 | #4,605 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 18 | #3,345 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,717 | 14 | #4,003 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 16 | #3,480 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 26 | #2,311 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 27 | #2,173 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 27 | #2,106 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 24 | #2,237 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,728 | 10 | #3,976 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 25 | #2,100 | |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,616 | 16 | #2,862 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,293 | 15 | #2,922 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 24 | #2,168 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,221 | 28 | #1,908 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,271 | 24 | #2,024 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,447 | 42 | #1,413 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,663 | 47 | #1,287 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 58 | #1,101 | |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,776 | 46 | #1,232 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,674 | 59 | #1,058 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 43 | #1,263 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,570 | 34 | #1,470 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 37 | #1,375 | |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,478 | 42 | #1,223 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 31 | #1,401 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 23 | #1,614 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 21 | #1,687 | |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,557 | 17 | #1,932 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,681 | 19 | #1,854 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,953 | 26 | #1,548 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,589 | 19 | #1,861 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,393 | 15 | #2,161 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,506 | 17 | #1,979 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,287 | 15 | #2,131 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,395 | 22 | #1,691 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,948 | 22 | #1,722 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,330 | 19 | #1,842 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,028 | 19 | #1,797 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,625 | 15 | #2,055 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 8 | #2,954 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 17 | #1,873 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #3,816 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 11 | #2,363 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,053 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 11 | #2,392 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,616 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #2,916 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #2,984 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,761 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,433 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Corby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,658 Americans recorded as Corby, 18% are girls and 82% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Corby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Corby, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 1,658 Americans ever recorded as Corby. The median Corby alive today is 51 years old; half are between 39 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,458 people named Corby (322 women and girls, 1,136 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,483 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 585 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 143 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,764 babies since 1880, Corby is the most given (94% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Corby
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Corby and names like it
- Compare Corby and KorbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCorby peaked in 1973.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Corby since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Corby.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Corby alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.