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Cordarryl vs Cory

American parents have registered 133,778 Corys since 1880, against 157 Cordarryls. Cory is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cordarryl against Cory, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cordarryl Cory

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Cory has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1924 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1987, when Cordarryl had 41 and Cory had 6,059.

Side by side

  Cordarryl Cory
Total US births 157133,778
Most in one year 416,660
Babies in 2025 under 5174
Estimated living today 150125,000
Median age today 3738
Peak year 19871989
Best rank 1,655th boys61st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,244th
First recorded 19861924
Girls / boys 0 / 1576,599 / 127,179

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cordarryl and Cory.