Cory
Cory reached its high-water mark in 1989 at number 61, and has been recorded 133,778 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,244th. About 125,000 Corys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cory boys named Cory
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 133,778
- Estimated living today
- 125,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 61st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,244th
- First recorded
- 1924
- Girls / boys
- 6,599 / 127,179
How old the living Corys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 133,778 babies given the name since 1924, about 125,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 5,900 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 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 Corys
- Cory Booker (born 1969)American politician
- Cory Doctorow (born 1971)Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
- Cory Monteith (1982–2013)Canadian actor
- Cory Gardner (born 1974)United States Senator from Colorado
- Cory Edwards (born 1968)American film director and comedian
- Cory Joseph (born 1991)Canadian basketball player
- Cory Michael Smith (born 1986)American actor
- Cory Higgins (born 1989)American basketball player
People named Cory with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cory is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cory is most concentrated in Montana (2.3×), Utah (2.2×), Wyoming (2.2×), North Dakota (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Cory peaked:
Cory elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Cory | 3,146 | 140th |
| Scotland boys | Cory | 255 | 211th |
| France boys | Cory | 195 | 1,352nd |
| New Zealand boys | Cory | 129 | 77th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Cory | 125 | 187th |
| Ireland boys | Cory | 124 | 214th |
| France girls | Cory | 85 | 2,056th |
| England and Wales girls | Cory | 39 | 1,805th |
| Scotland girls | Cory | 3 | 621st |
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.
Related names
Cory against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.