Corley — unisex name

What the Data Says About Corley

The Social Security Administration has registered 360 babies named Corley between 1976 and 2023, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Corley currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Corley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 255 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Corley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Corley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Corley in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Corley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 360 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.