Kory
Kory is a boy's name that peaked in 1989, when it was the 373rd most popular in the United States. Its origin is given as a surname. In 2025 it ranked 3,314th. About 15,000 Korys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kory boys named Kory
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,723
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 373rd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,314th
- First recorded
- 1952
- Girls / boys
- 1,338 / 14,385
How old the living Korys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,723 babies given the name since 1952, about 15,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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
20th-century US variant of Cory.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Kory is most common
Across the country Kory is recorded 3.41 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Korys are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Kory peaked:
Kory elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Kory | 292 | 850th |
| France boys | Kory | 25 | 4,032nd |
| France girls | Kory | 5 | 3,574th |
| Ireland boys | Kory | 4 | 601st |
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
Kory 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.