Koray
Koray was last recorded in 2020, when 8 babies were given it; 130 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koray by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Koray mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Koray is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the senses “ember” (kor) and “moon” (ay).
From kor (“ember”) + ay (“moon”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Koray?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,183, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2005, the peak
Koray peaked in 2005, when 10 boys were given it, #7,428 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | #9,183 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,267 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,388 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,520 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,161 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,176 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,317 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,646 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,594 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,914 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #10,402 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,150 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,428 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,211 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,984 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,777 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,125 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,871 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,476 | 3.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,882 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Koray a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Koray has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Koray: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koray, and how old are they?
An estimated 128 Americans named Koray and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 297 people named Koray (11 women and girls, 286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 122 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 359,828 babies since 1880, Koray is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 629 babies recorded by SSA was a Koray (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Koray
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 Koray and names like it
- Compare Koray and CoreyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKoray peaked in 2005.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Koray: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Koray.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Koray alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.