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Cory
Pronounced /ˈkɔː.ɹi/
Rank in 2024
#1,096
Born in 2024
197
Peak year
1989 · #61
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:16 in 2024 (#7,151)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 197 boys were named Cory, about 1 in every 8,707.
- It peaked in 1989 with 6,450 babies, ranked #61.
- It first shows up in the records in 1924.
- 127,023 boys have been named Cory since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Cory per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.3Gen X1965–80
- 2.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 85 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,785 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen X: 34,899 babies, 1.28 per 1,000. Millennials: 69,109 babies, 2.27 per 1,000. Gen Z: 15,937 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,201 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Corey.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Cori, masculine equivalent Corey.
- A diminutive of the female given names Cora and Corinne and similar sounding names.
- (Philippines) A diminutive of the female given name Corazón, from Spanish.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɔː.ɹi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Cory, CC BY-SA 4.0.