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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Corey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Corey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Corey” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Corey” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Corey” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Corey” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Corey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Corey” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1942 27 0.000009884 27 -100%
1943 22 0.000007794 22 -100%
1944 20 0.000007435 20 -100%
1945 27 0.000010178 6 21 -56%
1946 20 0.000006259 20 -100%
1947 20 0.000005552 20 -100%
1948 42 0.000012165 5 37 -76%
1949 57 0.000016357 8 49 -72%
1950 66 0.000018839 8 58 -76%
1951 73 0.000019817 6 67 -84%
1952 116 0.000030542 11 105 -81%
1953 90 0.000023355 10 80 -78%
1954 160 0.000040194 11 149 -86%
1955 269 0.000066997 17 252 -87%
1956 314 0.000076157 20 294 -87%
1957 284 0.000067585 23 261 -84%
1958 337 0.000081521 42 295 -75%
1959 351 0.000084416 56 295 -68%
1960 349 0.000084019 45 304 -74%
1961 449 0.000108394 44 405 -80%
1962 485 0.000120187 48 437 -80%
1963 482 0.000121773 55 427 -77%
1964 499 0.000128357 41 458 -84%
1965 545 0.000150326 40 505 -85%
1966 512 0.00014731 47 465 -82%
1967 512 0.000150815 46 466 -82%
1968 1666 0.000493131 89 1577 -89%
1969 5067 0.001457994 142 4925 -94%
1970 3933 0.001090527 120 3813 -94%
1971 3908 0.001138577 142 3766 -93%
1972 3142 0.000999684 151 2991 -90%
1973 3233 0.001071634 214 3019 -87%
1974 3597 0.001183224 216 3381 -88%
1975 4143 0.00137213 267 3876 -87%
1976 4716 0.00155423 283 4433 -88%
1977 6390 0.002011652 350 6040 -89%
1978 5240 0.001650981 298 4942 -89%
1979 5027 0.001510971 290 4737 -88%
1980 4719 0.001370008 281 4438 -88%
1981 4515 0.001305149 268 4247 -88%
1982 4212 0.001200697 273 3939 -87%
1983 4256 0.001228872 289 3967 -86%
1984 4538 0.001300751 294 4244 -87%
1985 5608 0.00157126 378 5230 -87%
1986 6156 0.001730634 394 5762 -87%
1987 6773 0.00187846 330 6443 -90%
1988 7653 0.002071153 323 7330 -92%
1989 8291 0.002156617 287 8004 -93%
1990 8010 0.002026577 319 7691 -92%
1991 7225 0.001854816 295 6930 -92%
1992 6397 0.001665333 257 6140 -92%
1993 5935 0.001574154 261 5674 -91%
1994 5504 0.001480504 225 5279 -92%
1995 5182 0.001415014 206 4976 -92%
1996 4231 0.00116007 144 4087 -93%
1997 3548 0.000978556 132 3416 -93%
1998 3300 0.000897176 99 3201 -94%
1999 2913 0.000788604 86 2827 -94%
2000 2677 0.000708219 70 2607 -95%
2001 2306 0.000616019 61 2245 -95%
2002 2166 0.000579409 61 2105 -94%
2003 1926 0.000506533 39 1887 -96%
2004 1728 0.000452247 54 1674 -94%
2005 1736 0.000451514 31 1705 -96%
2006 1557 0.000393561 23 1534 -97%
2007 1423 0.000355956 20 1403 -97%
2008 1213 0.000308599 30 1183 -95%
2009 1149 0.000300772 25 1124 -96%
2010 1035 0.000280052 24 1011 -95%
2011 1047 0.000286238 20 1027 -96%
2012 904 0.000247172 24 880 -95%
2013 895 0.000245497 16 879 -96%
2014 826 0.000222859 17 809 -96%
2015 773 0.000208867 19 754 -95%
2016 792 0.00021588 22 770 -94%
2017 672 0.000187909 23 649 -93%
2018 646 0.000183737 23 623 -93%
2019 614 0.000176898 29 585 -91%
2020 569 0.00017033 31 538 -89%
2021 541 0.000159684 24 517 -91%
2022 455 0.000134491 18 437 -92%
2023 447 0.000134997 20 427 -91%
2024 419 0.000125882 17 402 -92%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Corey:

  1. Coreon
  2. Coreta
  3. Coretha
  4. Coretta
  5. Corette
  6. Corey (this page)
  7. Coreyana
  8. Coreyanna
  9. Coreyion
  10. Coreyon
  11. Coreyona