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Corey vs Corinthia

American parents have registered 194,076 Coreys since 1880, against 1,133 Corinthias. Corey is still ahead, with 351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corey Corinthia

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 99 years in which either name was published, Corey for 92 years and Corinthia for 7 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Corey Corinthia
Total US births 194,0761,133
Most in one year 8,29035
Babies in 2025 351under 5
Estimated living today 182,0001,000
Median age today 3739
Peak year 19891992
Best rank 55th boys3,218th girls
Rank in 2025 778thunranked
First recorded 19191905
Girls / boys 9,056 / 185,0201,133 / 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 Corinthias 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.

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