Korey
Korey is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 47 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,580 among girls’ names and #2,736 among boys’, #5,380 among all names counting both); 12,863 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,300 Americans named Korey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 24 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Korey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Korey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Korey is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
20th-century American variant of Cory.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Korey?
#2,736 among boys’ names, 2025
Korey fell from #1,634 in 2015 to #2,736 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 51.1 to 27.5 per million.
551 babies in 1990, the peak
Korey peaked in 1990, when 551 babies were given it (507 boys, #437 among boys’ names). The 54 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,580 | 47 | #2,736 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,263 | 50 | #2,651 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 65 | #2,208 | |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,827 | 57 | #2,455 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,542 | 81 | #1,895 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,204 | 82 | #1,822 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,896 | 85 | #1,811 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,379 | 82 | #1,846 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,077 | 72 | #1,990 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,557 | 106 | #1,561 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,594 | 98 | #1,634 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,299 | 94 | #1,648 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,889 | 116 | #1,429 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,430 | 130 | #1,319 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,828 | 124 | #1,360 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,987 | 135 | #1,290 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,161 | 141 | #1,256 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,346 | 170 | #1,094 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,801 | 141 | #1,251 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,032 | 188 | #991 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,615 | 207 | #883 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,634 | 177 | #950 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,324 | 225 | #778 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,358 | 239 | #734 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,464 | 256 | #699 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,068 | 195 | #821 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,751 | 238 | #702 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,721 | 237 | #704 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,186 | 222 | #712 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,116 | 295 | #604 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,701 | 334 | #559 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,568 | 330 | #564 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,614 | 377 | #527 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,106 | 365 | #532 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,803 | 435 | #474 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,667 | 507 | #437 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,729 | 485 | #427 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,823 | 393 | #456 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,461 | 358 | #466 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,243 | 310 | #497 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,375 | 317 | #487 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,957 | 201 | #601 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,190 | 206 | #596 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,216 | 167 | #675 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,488 | 174 | #645 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,773 | 215 | #587 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,389 | 164 | #668 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,900 | 173 | #634 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,237 | 248 | #534 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,628 | 156 | #656 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,843 | 158 | #654 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,797 | 113 | #765 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,867 | 112 | #758 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,224 | 100 | #800 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,432 | 135 | #714 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,500 | 140 | #705 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,256 | 127 | #701 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,613 | 64 | #905 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,293 | 30 | #1,398 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 25 | #1,558 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,008 | 21 | #1,754 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,738 | 18 | #1,940 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,602 | 21 | #1,773 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,708 | 25 | #1,604 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 25 | #1,619 | |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,434 | 11 | #2,615 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,742 | 8 | #3,156 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 11 | #2,583 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,741 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,090 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,706 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,099 |
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 Korey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 12,863 Americans recorded as Korey, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Korey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Korey, and how old are they?
12,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 12,863 Americans ever recorded as Korey. The median Korey alive today is 34 years old; half are between 24 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 10,107 people named Korey (1,187 women and girls, 8,920 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,017 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 141 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,080 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,580 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,200 |
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 Korey born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,792 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,457 | 1.0× |
Where Korey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Korey is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1953 it was given 1.4 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 Korey 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 360,843 babies since 1880, Korey is the fourth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 629 babies (8.6%), the third most given that year.
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 Korey
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 Korey and names like it
- Compare Korey and CoreyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKorey peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Korey since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Korey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Korey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Korey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.