Kory — #2961 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kory

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,350 babies named Kory between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kory currently holds the #2961 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 601 babies received it in a single year. Kory is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,330 additional births since 1957.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kory performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 4,159 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kory shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,485 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kory in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kory 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 14,350 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.