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Corey vs Corynn

American parents have registered 194,076 Coreys since 1880, against 778 Corynns. Corey is still ahead, with 351 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corey Corynn

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 2019, when Corey had 615 and Corynn had 19.

Side by side

  Corey Corynn
Total US births 194,076778
Most in one year 8,29042
Babies in 2025 3516
Estimated living today 182,000770
Median age today 3722
Peak year 19892006
Best rank 55th boys3,669th girls
Rank in 2025 778th13,208th
First recorded 19191975
Girls / boys 9,056 / 185,020778 / 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 Corynns are over 22. That is 15 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.

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