Cory — #1093 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cory

The Social Security Administration has registered 127,023 babies named Cory between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cory currently holds the #1093 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 6,450 babies received it in a single year. Cory is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,585 additional births since 1932.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cory performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 44,361 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Cory shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10,698 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Cory in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cory 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 127,023 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.