Corey
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births · #778 for boys in 2025, 327 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 6,041 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 28 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 185,020since 1919
Corey over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 | #778 | 327 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #677 | 403 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #642 | 430 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #634 | 437 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 | #552 | 517 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #530 | 539 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | #491 | 586 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | #465 | 623 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | #467 | 650 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 | #415 | 770 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | #412 | 755 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #384 | 809 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #358 | 879 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #351 | 880 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | #313 | 1,027 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | #316 | 1,011 |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | #294 | 1,124 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 | #287 | 1,184 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #251 | 1,403 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #234 | 1,534 |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 | #213 | 1,705 |
| 2004 | #2,927 | 54 | #211 | 1,674 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | #199 | 1,887 |
| 2002 | #2,554 | 61 | #181 | 2,105 |
| 2001 | #2,512 | 61 | #168 | 2,245 |
| 2000 | #2,236 | 70 | #149 | 2,607 |
| 1999 | #1,844 | 86 | #135 | 2,827 |
| 1998 | #1,636 | 99 | #115 | 3,201 |
| 1997 | #1,312 | 132 | #110 | 3,416 |
| 1996 | #1,223 | 144 | #94 | 4,087 |
| 1995 | #914 | 206 | #74 | 4,976 |
| 1994 | #869 | 225 | #73 | 5,279 |
| 1993 | #785 | 261 | #68 | 5,674 |
| 1992 | #790 | 257 | #65 | 6,140 |
| 1991 | #714 | 295 | #58 | 6,931 |
| 1990 | #673 | 319 | #56 | 7,692 |
| 1989 | #697 | 287 | #55 | 8,003 |
| 1988 | #619 | 323 | #56 | 7,328 |
| 1987 | #590 | 330 | #57 | 6,444 |
| 1986 | #522 | 394 | #62 | 5,762 |
| 1985 | #527 | 378 | #63 | 5,228 |
| 1984 | #607 | 294 | #69 | 4,243 |
| 1983 | #608 | 289 | #74 | 3,967 |
| 1982 | #653 | 273 | #74 | 3,939 |
| 1981 | #660 | 268 | #69 | 4,247 |
| 1980 | #650 | 281 | #68 | 4,437 |
| 1979 | #610 | 290 | #63 | 4,738 |
| 1978 | #576 | 298 | #61 | 4,942 |
| 1977 | #525 | 350 | #52 | 6,041 |
| 1976 | #579 | 283 | #64 | 4,432 |
| 1975 | #602 | 267 | #71 | 3,876 |
| 1974 | #682 | 216 | #77 | 3,382 |
| 1973 | #695 | 214 | #89 | 3,019 |
| 1972 | #855 | 151 | #95 | 2,990 |
| 1971 | #917 | 142 | #77 | 3,766 |
| 1970 | #1,026 | 120 | #84 | 3,814 |
| 1969 | #881 | 142 | #58 | 4,924 |
| 1968 | #1,133 | 89 | #171 | 1,577 |
| 1967 | #1,682 | 46 | #345 | 466 |
| 1966 | #1,632 | 47 | #347 | 465 |
| 1965 | #1,829 | 39 | #337 | 505 |
| 1964 | #1,836 | 41 | #363 | 458 |
| 1963 | #1,508 | 55 | #384 | 427 |
| 1962 | #1,627 | 48 | #383 | 437 |
| 1961 | #1,720 | 44 | #395 | 406 |
| 1960 | #1,673 | 45 | #458 | 303 |
| 1959 | #1,435 | 56 | #462 | 295 |
| 1958 | #1,657 | 42 | #458 | 295 |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 | #482 | 261 |
| 1956 | #2,530 | 20 | #438 | 293 |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | #465 | 253 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 | #605 | 149 |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | #798 | 80 |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 | #677 | 105 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | #852 | 67 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | #899 | 58 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | #997 | 49 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | #1,173 | 37 |
| 1947 | — | #1,696 | 20 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,601 | 20 | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | #1,445 | 21 |
| 1944 | — | #1,525 | 20 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,486 | 22 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,334 | 27 | |
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| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,449 | 9 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Corey! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1925, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Corey
- 101 spots since 2024 (#677 → #778)
- 248 spots since 2020 (#530 → #778)
- 366 spots since 2015 (#412 → #778)
- Biggest jump: 193 spots in 1954 (#798 → #605)
- Biggest drop: 121 spots in 1953 (#677 → #798)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1977 at #52 (6,041 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 28 yrs · run 1969–1996
- Top 1,000: 77 yrs · run 1949–2025
- Highest: 1 in 250 boys born in 1989 were named Corey (0.40%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,223 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #52 in 1977, was only 1 in 272 (0.37%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.0% of all boys named Corey (53,598) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 21 | #3,708 (1926) | #4,095 |
| 1930s | 15 | #2,449 (1939) | #2,812 |
| 1940s | 223 | #997 (1949) | #1,570 |
| 1950s | 1,856 | #438 (1956) | #614 |
| 1960s | 9,968 | #58 (1969) | #324 |
| 1970s | 41,000 | #52 (1977) | #73 |
| 1980s | 53,598 | #55 (1989) | #65 |
| 1990s | 50,223 | #56 (1990) | #85 |
| 2000s | 17,468 | #149 (2000) | #219 |
| 2010s | 7,990 | #313 (2011) | #397 |
| 2020s | 2,653 | #530 (2020) | #636 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Corey in 1919
Top boys' names in 1919
More about 1919
boys
980,122 boys got a published name in 1919; 1 in 196,024 of them was named Corey, which outranked 13.3% of the 4,810 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 642 names at #4,168; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.