Cory
Cory is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 197 births. Its best rank was 59th, in 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1970.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19896,450 births
- Best rank
- #59in 1988
- Since 1924
- 133,608people given the name
The story in the numbers
127,023 boys have been named Cory in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 6,450 births — 0.32% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 197 births in 2024, against 6,450 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 35%. It has spent 70 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 19 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 6,585 girls have also been given it, 4.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cory | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 7 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 174 | |
| 1950s | 1,627 | |
| 1960s | 5,896 | |
| 1970s | 27,511 | |
| 1980s | 44,361 | |
| 1990s | 34,166 | |
| 2000s | 8,903 | |
| 2010s | 3,354 | |
| 2020s | 1,019 |
In 1989, its biggest year
Cory was the 61st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Cory
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Coreypeak 1989
- Korypeak 1989
- Toreypeak 1987
- Jermeypeak 1986
- Travispeak 1989
- Caseypeak 1990
- Jarradpeak 1988
- Jerridpeak 1988
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.