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Coretta vs Corey

American parents have registered 194,076 Coreys since 1880, against 2,433 Corettas. Corey is still ahead, with 351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Coretta against Corey, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Coretta Corey

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

Of the 112 years in which either name was published, Corey for 86 years and Coretta for 26 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Coretta Corey
Total US births 2,433194,076
Most in one year 3368,290
Babies in 2025 under 5351
Estimated living today 2,100182,000
Median age today 5337
Peak year 19681989
Best rank 524th girls55th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked778th
First recorded 19091919
Girls / boys 2,433 / 09,056 / 185,020

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Corettas alive today are over 53; half the Coreys are over 37. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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