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Kori vs Korri

American parents have registered 16,387 Koris since 1880, against 640 Korris. Kori is still ahead, with 287 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kori Korri

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

Kori 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 1965, when Kori had 41 and Korri had 5.

Side by side

  Kori Korri
Total US births 16,387640
Most in one year 50328
Babies in 2025 2875
Estimated living today 16,000620
Median age today 2532
Peak year 20161990
Best rank 631st girls4,380th girls
Rank in 2025 978th14,942nd
First recorded 19531961
Girls / boys 14,822 / 1,565634 / 6

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 Korris alive today are over 32; half the Koris are over 25. That is 7 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.

Country Kori Korri
England and Wales 3003

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