Corey
Corey was given to 327 boys in 2025, #778 among boys’ names; 194,076 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 182,000 Americans named Corey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 31 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Corey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Corey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Corey is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “an English surname from Old Norse from the Old Norse given name Kóri, itself perhaps from Old Irish Cuire, from cuire (“troop, host, company”), from Proto-Celtic *koryos (“army, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”).”
/ˈkɔ.ɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Corey?
#778 among boys’ names, 2025
Corey fell from #412 in 2015 to #778 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.39 to 0.19 per 1,000.
8,290 babies in 1989, the peak
Corey peaked in 1989, when 8,290 babies were given it (8,003 boys, #55 among boys’ names). The 351 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 327 | #778 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 403 | #678 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 430 | #642 | 0.25 |
| 2022 | 437 | #635 | 0.25 |
| 2021 | 517 | #552 | 0.30 |
| 2020 | 539 | #530 | 0.31 |
| 2019 | 586 | #491 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 623 | #465 | 0.34 |
| 2017 | 650 | #467 | 0.35 |
| 2016 | 770 | #415 | 0.41 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 755 | #412 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 809 | #384 | 0.42 |
| 2013 | 879 | #358 | 0.46 |
| 2012 | 880 | #351 | 0.46 |
| 2011 | 1,027 | #313 | 0.54 |
| 2010 | 1,011 | #316 | 0.53 |
| 2009 | 1,124 | #294 | 0.57 |
| 2008 | 1,184 | #287 | 0.58 |
| 2007 | 1,403 | #251 | 0.68 |
| 2006 | 1,534 | #234 | 0.75 |
| 2005 | 1,705 | #213 | 0.85 |
| 2004 | 1,674 | #211 | 0.84 |
| 2003 | 1,887 | #199 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 2,105 | #181 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 2,245 | #168 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 2,607 | #149 | 1.3 |
| 1999 | 2,827 | #135 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 3,201 | #115 | 1.7 |
| 1997 | 3,416 | #110 | 1.8 |
| 1996 | 4,087 | #94 | 2.2 |
| 1995 | 4,976 | #74 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5,279 | #73 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 5,674 | #68 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 6,140 | #65 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 6,931 | #58 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 7,692 | #56 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 8,003 | #55 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 7,328 | #56 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 6,444 | #57 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5,762 | #62 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 5,228 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 4,243 | #69 | 2.4 |
| 1983 | 3,967 | #74 | 2.2 |
| 1982 | 3,939 | #74 | 2.2 |
| 1981 | 4,247 | #69 | 2.4 |
| 1980 | 4,437 | #68 | 2.5 |
| 1979 | 4,738 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 4,942 | #61 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6,041 | #52 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 4,432 | #64 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 3,876 | #71 | 2.5 |
| 1974 | 3,382 | #77 | 2.2 |
| 1973 | 3,019 | #89 | 1.9 |
| 1972 | 2,990 | #95 | 1.8 |
| 1971 | 3,766 | #77 | 2.1 |
| 1970 | 3,814 | #84 | 2.1 |
| 1969 | 4,924 | #58 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 1,577 | #171 | 0.91 |
| 1967 | 466 | #345 | 0.27 |
| 1966 | 465 | #347 | 0.26 |
| 1965 | 505 | #337 | 0.27 |
| 1964 | 458 | #363 | 0.23 |
| 1963 | 427 | #384 | 0.21 |
| 1962 | 437 | #383 | 0.21 |
| 1961 | 406 | #395 | 0.19 |
| 1960 | 303 | #458 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 295 | #462 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 295 | #458 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 261 | #481 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 293 | #437 | 0.14 |
| 1955 | 253 | #464 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 149 | #605 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 80 | #799 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 105 | #676 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 67 | #853 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 58 | #899 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 49 | #997 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,175 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,704 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,609 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,453 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,536 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,495 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,339 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,925 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,237 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,793 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,474 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,283 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Corey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 194,076 Americans recorded as Corey, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 24 girls and 327 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Corey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Corey, and how old are they?
182,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 194,076 Americans ever recorded as Corey. The median Corey alive today is 38 years old; half are between 31 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 156,599 people named Corey (7,482 women and girls, 149,117 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 182,610 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 44 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,290 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 50,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 89,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 30,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,950 |
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).
Where are babies named Corey born?
The states with the most babies named Corey are California, Texas and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 36 | #812 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 23 | #1,019 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 22 | #708 | 1.1× |
| New York | 20 | #721 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 16 | #603 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 15 | #652 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #624 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #549 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #714 | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 11 | #529 | 1.1× |
Where Corey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Corey is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1919 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Corey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 360,567 babies since 1880, Corey is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 351 of their 624 babies (56%), again the most given.
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 Corey
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 Corey and names like it
- Compare Corey and CoryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCorey peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Corey since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Corey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Corey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.