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Korey vs Korrin

American parents have registered 12,863 Koreys since 1880, against 539 Korrins. Korey is still ahead, with 54 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Korey against Korrin, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Korey Korrin

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

Korey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1953 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1966, when Korey had 25 and Korrin had 6.

Side by side

  Korey Korrin
Total US births 12,863539
Most in one year 55127
Babies in 2025 54under 5
Estimated living today 12,000530
Median age today 3331
Peak year 19901978
Best rank 438th boys2,942nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,718thunranked
First recorded 19531962
Girls / boys 1,420 / 11,443539 / 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 Koreys alive today are over 33; half the Korrins are over 31. 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: Korey and Korrin.