Korey — #2638 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Korey

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,393 babies named Korey between 1953 and 2024, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Korey currently holds the #2638 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 507 babies received it in a single year. Korey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,413 additional births since 1959.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Korey performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 3,340 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Korey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 832 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Korey in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Korey 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 11,393 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.