Cory

Cory is the 6,262nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,229 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 57,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,229
Rank: 6,262nd
How common: 1 in 57,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cory described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Cory

Suzanne Cory (born 1942)Australian molecular biologist
Charles B. Cory (1857–1921)American ornithologist and amateur golfer

People named Cory with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cory

Also a first name

Cory has been given to 133,778 American babies as a first name since 1924, peaking in 1989. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.