Cory
Cory was given to 160 boys in 2025, #1,245 among boys’ names; 133,778 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 125,000 Americans named Cory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cory mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cory is “a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Corey.”
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Cori, masculine equivalent Corey.”
/ˈkɔ.ɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cory?
#1,245 among boys’ names, 2025
Cory fell from #723 in 2015 to #1,245 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.18 to 0.09 per 1,000.
6,660 babies in 1989, the peak
Cory peaked in 1989, when 6,660 babies were given it (6,450 boys, #61 among boys’ names). The 174 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,245 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 197 | #1,096 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 174 | #1,179 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 182 | #1,144 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 221 | #991 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 245 | #910 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 244 | #900 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 242 | #894 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 301 | #778 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 320 | #760 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 341 | #723 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 357 | #696 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 377 | #648 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 373 | #641 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 362 | #650 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 438 | #578 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 544 | #499 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 608 | #457 | 0.30 |
| 2007 | 706 | #416 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 653 | #429 | 0.32 |
| 2005 | 773 | #373 | 0.39 |
| 2004 | 817 | #349 | 0.41 |
| 2003 | 924 | #320 | 0.47 |
| 2002 | 1,119 | #275 | 0.58 |
| 2001 | 1,263 | #260 | 0.65 |
| 2000 | 1,496 | #227 | 0.76 |
| 1999 | 1,704 | #198 | 0.89 |
| 1998 | 2,075 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 1997 | 2,083 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1996 | 2,446 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1995 | 3,010 | #123 | 1.6 |
| 1994 | 3,529 | #102 | 1.8 |
| 1993 | 3,997 | #94 | 2.0 |
| 1992 | 4,436 | #83 | 2.2 |
| 1991 | 5,121 | #74 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5,765 | #67 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 6,450 | #61 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 6,266 | #59 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 5,849 | #62 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 4,871 | #68 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 3,868 | #81 | 2.1 |
| 1984 | 3,505 | #83 | 1.9 |
| 1983 | 3,404 | #83 | 1.9 |
| 1982 | 3,237 | #93 | 1.8 |
| 1981 | 3,352 | #90 | 1.9 |
| 1980 | 3,556 | #83 | 2.0 |
| 1979 | 3,587 | #82 | 2.1 |
| 1978 | 3,842 | #73 | 2.3 |
| 1977 | 4,259 | #67 | 2.6 |
| 1976 | 3,182 | #83 | 2.0 |
| 1975 | 2,573 | #99 | 1.6 |
| 1974 | 2,328 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 1973 | 2,034 | #128 | 1.3 |
| 1972 | 1,957 | #136 | 1.2 |
| 1971 | 1,985 | #150 | 1.1 |
| 1970 | 1,762 | #164 | 0.95 |
| 1969 | 1,783 | #160 | 1.0 |
| 1968 | 717 | #274 | 0.41 |
| 1967 | 438 | #359 | 0.25 |
| 1966 | 444 | #356 | 0.25 |
| 1965 | 450 | #361 | 0.24 |
| 1964 | 430 | #381 | 0.22 |
| 1963 | 394 | #405 | 0.19 |
| 1962 | 441 | #381 | 0.21 |
| 1961 | 446 | #373 | 0.21 |
| 1960 | 353 | #427 | 0.17 |
| 1959 | 311 | #454 | 0.15 |
| 1958 | 282 | #469 | 0.13 |
| 1957 | 284 | #456 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 184 | #559 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 209 | #507 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 139 | #627 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 63 | #904 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 46 | #1,066 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 63 | #883 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 46 | #1,037 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,442 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,433 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,490 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,775 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,186 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 17 | #1,696 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 14 | #1,996 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,645 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 133,778 Americans recorded as Cory, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls and 160 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cory, and how old are they?
125,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 133,778 Americans ever recorded as Cory. The median Cory alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 113,340 people named Cory (5,861 women and girls, 107,479 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 126,229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 38 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 68,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,510 |
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 Cory born?
The states with the most babies named Cory are California, Texas and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,088 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,258 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,277 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 8 | #723 | 1.4× |
| New York | 7 | #1,445 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #861 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,158 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,013 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,306 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,391 | 0.8× |
Where Cory is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cory is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1924 it was given 1.9 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 Cory 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, Cory is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 174 of their 624 babies (28%), again the second 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 Cory
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 Cory and names like it
- Compare Cory and CoreyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCory peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cory since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Cory: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Cory.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cory alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.