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Korbyn vs Korey

American parents have registered 12,863 Koreys since 1880, against 4,282 Korbyns. But in 2025 it was Korbyn that was commoner, 134 babies to 54.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Korbyn against Korey, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Korbyn Korey

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

Of the 72 years in which either name was published, Korey for 56 years and Korbyn for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Korbyn Korey
Total US births 4,28212,863
Most in one year 250551
Babies in 2025 13454
Estimated living today 4,20012,000
Median age today 1033
Peak year 20201990
Best rank 982nd boys438th boys
Rank in 2025 1,621st2,718th
First recorded 19901953
Girls / boys 778 / 3,5041,420 / 11,443

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Koreys alive today are over 33; half the Korbyns are over 10. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Korbyn Korey
England and Wales 86623

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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