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Corey vs Corie

American parents have registered 194,076 Coreys since 1880, against 4,746 Cories. Corey is still ahead, with 351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corey Corie

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 93 years in which either name was published, Corey for 91 years and Corie for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Corey Corie
Total US births 194,0764,746
Most in one year 8,290186
Babies in 2025 35122
Estimated living today 182,0004,500
Median age today 3739
Peak year 19891977
Best rank 55th boys971st girls
Rank in 2025 778th5,554th
First recorded 19191918
Girls / boys 9,056 / 185,0203,725 / 1,021

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 Cories alive today are over 39; half the Coreys are over 37. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Corey Corie
England and Wales 12,832150
France 14555

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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