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Corinthia vs Cory

American parents have registered 133,778 Corys since 1880, against 1,133 Corinthias. Cory is still ahead, with 174 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Corinthia against Cory, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Corinthia Cory

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, Cory for 88 years and Corinthia for 7 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Corinthia Cory
Total US births 1,133133,778
Most in one year 356,660
Babies in 2025 under 5174
Estimated living today 1,000125,000
Median age today 3938
Peak year 19921989
Best rank 3,218th girls61st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,244th
First recorded 19051924
Girls / boys 1,133 / 06,599 / 127,179

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.

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