Corey vs Corley

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Corey Corley

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 95 years in which either name was published, Corey for 90 years and Corley for 5 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1917 Corley ahead
• 1919 Corey ahead
• 1921–1925 Corley ahead
• 1926–1928 Corey ahead
• 1934 Corley ahead
• 1937–2025 Corey ahead

Side by side

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 Corleys are over 26. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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