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Corey vs Corin

American parents have registered 194,076 Coreys since 1880, against 2,692 Corins. Corey is still ahead, with 351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corey Corin

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

Corey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Corey had 646 and Corin had 40.

Side by side

  Corey Corin
Total US births 194,0762,692
Most in one year 8,29087
Babies in 2025 35118
Estimated living today 182,0002,600
Median age today 3731
Peak year 19891981
Best rank 55th boys1,663rd girls
Rank in 2025 778th11,932nd
First recorded 19191955
Girls / boys 9,056 / 185,0201,696 / 996

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 Coreys alive today are over 37; half the Corins are over 31. That is 6 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 Corin
England and Wales 12,832422
Scotland 1,668102
Ireland 1,2383
Northern Ireland 1,16036
France 1455

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 Corin.