Cori
Cori was given to 100 girls in 2025, #1,932 among girls’ names; 13,431 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,900 Americans named Cori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cori mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cori is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Corey.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cori?
#1,932 among girls’ names, 2025
Cori fell from #1,800 in 2015 to #1,932 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.0 to 62.2 per million.
435 babies in 1977, the peak
Cori peaked in 1977, when 435 babies were given it (397 girls, #482 among girls’ names). The 106 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,932 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,772 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,817 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,822 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,571 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,833 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,709 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,651 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,739 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,743 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,800 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,131 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,515 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,319 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,128 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,317 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,343 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,980 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,006 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 95 | #2,072 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,030 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,646 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,655 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,754 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,524 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 165 | #1,202 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,143 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 206 | #981 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 194 | #1,000 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 228 | #869 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 273 | #747 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 302 | #693 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 289 | #731 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 311 | #695 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 269 | #767 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 298 | #704 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 329 | #637 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 259 | #720 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 322 | #604 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 314 | #612 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 313 | #606 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 288 | #618 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 268 | #639 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 265 | #669 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 295 | #615 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 315 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 333 | #555 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 337 | #535 | 0.22 |
| 1977 | 397 | #482 | 0.26 |
| 1976 | 303 | #557 | 0.21 |
| 1975 | 298 | #562 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 262 | #602 | 0.18 |
| 1973 | 236 | #638 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 201 | #713 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 205 | #733 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 182 | #779 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 146 | #864 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 128 | #913 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,150 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,369 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,276 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 79 | #1,240 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,202 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 107 | #1,047 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 79 | #1,244 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,520 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,450 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,735 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,002 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,044 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,747 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,947 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,443 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,431 Americans recorded as Cori, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 100 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cori, and how old are they?
12,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 13,431 Americans ever recorded as Cori. The median Cori alive today is 38 years old; half are between 27 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 11,717 people named Cori (10,743 women and girls, 974 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 541 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,560 |
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 Cori born?
The states with the most babies named Cori are California, Texas and New York, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,387 | #3,204 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 907 | #1,552 | 0.8× |
| New York | 682 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 498 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 486 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 435 | #2,232 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 418 | #1,439 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 332 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 253 | #1,244 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 243 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Cori is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cori is most over-represented in Utah: since 1947 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Cori 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 538,225 babies since 1880, Cori is the fifth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 106 of their 4,009 babies (2.6%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Cori
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 Cori and names like it
- Compare Cori and CoreyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCori peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cori since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Cori.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cori alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.