Koree
Koree was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,201 among girls’ names; 714 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koree by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koree?
#16,201 among girls’ names, 2025
Koree fell from #9,836 in 2015 to #16,201 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
27 babies in 2016, the peak
Koree peaked in 2016, when 27 babies were given it (19 girls, #6,556 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,201 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,709 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,776 | 5 | #13,305 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,465 | |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,739 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,768 | 5 | #13,198 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,144 | 5 | #13,235 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,378 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,190 | 6 | #11,556 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,556 | 8 | #9,330 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,836 | 6 | #11,494 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,163 | 7 | #10,246 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,373 | 8 | #9,282 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,429 | 6 | #11,615 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,804 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,541 | 6 | #11,568 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,990 | 5 | #13,595 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,802 | 6 | #11,917 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 8 | #9,384 | |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,627 | 6 | #11,438 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,813 | 6 | #10,871 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,995 | 12 | #6,356 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,390 | 5 | #11,939 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,910 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,794 | 6 | #9,987 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,512 | 9 | #7,143 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,981 | 9 | #6,852 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,949 | 8 | #7,245 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,515 | 13 | #4,824 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,659 | 8 | #6,845 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,065 | 15 | #4,169 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,466 | 13 | #4,677 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,383 | 9 | #6,011 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,418 | 12 | #4,718 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,682 | 11 | #4,950 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,098 | 10 | #5,206 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,388 | 8 | #5,951 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,470 | 6 | #6,882 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,287 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,423 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,935 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,264 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,507 | 5 | #6,819 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,757 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,406 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,689 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,432 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Koree a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 714 Americans recorded as Koree, 63% are girls and 37% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Koree: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koree, and how old are they?
An estimated 700 Americans named Koree and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 12 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 594 people named Koree (382 women and girls, 212 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Koree?
Koree is a less common spelling of Kori: SSA has recorded 714 Koree and 16,387 Kori since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 38,136 babies since 1880, Koree is the eighth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,135 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Koree
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 Koree and names like it
- Compare Koree and KoriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKoree peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Koree.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Koree alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.