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 | ||
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| 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 1968
Top girls' names in 1968
Top boys' names in 1968
More about 1968
girls
1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 18,431 of them was named Corey, which outranked 86.2% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,123Kasey90
- #1,123Madelyn90
- #1,123Sofia90
- #1,133Corey89
- #1,133Brigid89
- #1,133Cherise89
- #1,133Cyndi89
- #1,147Arleen88
- #1,147Daniele88
- #1,147Jaclyn88
Tied with 13 names at #1,133; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 1,102 of them was named Corey, which outranked 96.4% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.