Kory
Kory is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 360th, in 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1989601 births
- Best rank
- #360in 1988
- Since 1952
- 15,680people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,350 boys have been named Kory in the United States since 1952, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 601 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 29%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,330 girls have also been given it, 8.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1989, its biggest year
Kory was the 373rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Kory
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Coreypeak 1989
- Geraldopeak 1988
- Derrekpeak 1989
- Arronpeak 1989
- Corypeak 1989
- Caseypeak 1990
- Toreypeak 1987
- Rodriquezpeak 1992
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.