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Corey vs Corinn

American parents have registered 194,076 Coreys since 1880, against 648 Corinns. Corey is still ahead, with 351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corey Corinn

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 1950, when Corey had 66 and Corinn had 6.

Side by side

  Corey Corinn
Total US births 194,076648
Most in one year 8,29031
Babies in 2025 3515
Estimated living today 182,000630
Median age today 3734
Peak year 19891978
Best rank 55th boys2,680th girls
Rank in 2025 778th14,942nd
First recorded 19191950
Girls / boys 9,056 / 185,020648 / 0

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 Corinns are over 34. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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