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Cordaryl vs Corey

American parents have registered 194,076 Coreys since 1880, against 181 Cordaryls. Corey is still ahead, with 351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cordaryl against Corey, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cordaryl Corey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Corey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1987, when Cordaryl had 50 and Corey had 6,774.

Side by side

  Cordaryl Corey
Total US births 181194,076
Most in one year 508,290
Babies in 2025 under 5351
Estimated living today 170182,000
Median age today 3737
Peak year 19871989
Best rank 1,439th boys55th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked778th
First recorded 19861919
Girls / boys 0 / 1819,056 / 185,020

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cordaryl and Corey.