Corey
Corey reached its high-water mark in 1989 at number 55, and has been recorded 194,076 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 778th. About 182,000 Coreys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Corey boys named Corey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 194,076
- Estimated living today
- 182,000
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 55th
- Rank in 2025
- 778th
- First recorded
- 1919
- Girls / boys
- 9,056 / 185,020
How old the living Coreys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 194,076 babies given the name since 1919, about 182,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Coreys
- Corey Taylor (born 1973)American musician
- Corey Stoll (born 1976)American stage and screen actor
- Corey Feldman (born 1971)American actor and musician
- Corey Haim (1971–2010)Canadian actor
- Corey Hawkins (born 1988)American actor
- Corey Brewer (born 1986)American basketball player
- Corey Perry (born 1985)Canadian ice hockey player
- Corey Hart (born 1962)Canadian musician and singer
People named Corey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Corey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Corey is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.0×), New Hampshire (1.9×), Vermont (1.8×), Maine (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Corey peaked:
Corey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Corey | 12,687 | 80th |
| New Zealand boys | Corey | 1,656 | 48th |
| Scotland boys | Corey | 1,647 | 79th |
| Ireland boys | Corey | 1,232 | 119th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Corey | 1,160 | 38th |
| England and Wales girls | Corey | 145 | 974th |
| France boys | Corey | 145 | 1,571st |
| Scotland girls | Corey | 21 | 493rd |
| Ireland girls | Corey | 6 | 516th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Corey among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Corey | 6 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Corey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.