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Corey
Pronounced /ˈkɔː.ɹi/
Rank in 2024
#678
Born in 2024
402
Peak year
1989 · #55
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:17 in 2024 (#6,848)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 402 boys were named Corey, about 1 in every 4,267.
- It peaked in 1989 with 8,004 babies, ranked #55.
- It first shows up in the records in 1919.
- 184,687 boys have been named Corey since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Corey per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 2.0Gen X1965–80
- 3.0Millennials1981–96
- 1.0Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 21 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 117 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,013 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 53,374 babies, 1.96 per 1,000. Millennials: 89,943 babies, 2.95 per 1,000. Gen Z: 29,829 babies, 0.95 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,390 babies, 0.34 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- An English surname from Old Norse from the Old Norse given name Kóri, itself perhaps from Old Irish Cuire, from cuire (“troop, host, company”), from Proto-Celtic *koryos (“army, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- (rare) A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Cori.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɔː.ɹi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Corey, CC BY-SA 4.0.