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How popular is “Cory” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cory” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cory” 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 “Cory” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cory” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cory” 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
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 -100%
1943 14 0.00000496 14 -100%
1944 17 0.00000632 17 -100%
1945 39 0.000014701 8 31 -59%
1946 17 0.00000532 17 -100%
1947 37 0.000010271 12 25 -35%
1948 40 0.000011586 14 26 -30%
1949 43 0.000012339 17 26 -21%
1950 61 0.000017412 15 46 -51%
1951 83 0.000022531 20 63 -52%
1952 62 0.000016324 16 46 -48%
1953 82 0.000021279 19 63 -54%
1954 165 0.00004145 26 139 -68%
1955 246 0.000061269 37 209 -70%
1956 217 0.000052631 33 184 -70%
1957 334 0.000079483 50 284 -70%
1958 343 0.000082972 61 282 -64%
1959 375 0.000090188 64 311 -66%
1960 423 0.000101834 70 353 -67%
1961 515 0.000124327 69 446 -73%
1962 518 0.000128365 77 441 -70%
1963 465 0.000117478 71 394 -69%
1964 485 0.000124755 55 430 -77%
1965 491 0.000135432 41 450 -83%
1966 479 0.000137816 35 444 -85%
1967 485 0.000142861 47 438 -81%
1968 778 0.000230286 61 717 -84%
1969 1874 0.00053923 91 1783 -90%
1970 1865 0.00051712 103 1762 -89%
1971 2088 0.000608329 102 1986 -90%
1972 2102 0.000668789 145 1957 -86%
1973 2193 0.000726908 159 2034 -85%
1974 2504 0.000823685 175 2329 -86%
1975 2795 0.000925682 222 2573 -84%
1976 3426 0.001129091 243 3183 -86%
1977 4528 0.001425471 271 4257 -88%
1978 4126 0.00129999 283 3843 -86%
1979 3827 0.001150286 240 3587 -87%
1980 3769 0.001094206 213 3556 -89%
1981 3568 0.0010314 213 3355 -88%
1982 3414 0.000973215 177 3237 -90%
1983 3586 0.001035417 183 3403 -90%
1984 3720 0.001066283 215 3505 -88%
1985 4052 0.001135297 184 3868 -91%
1986 5131 0.001442476 260 4871 -90%
1987 6059 0.001680435 210 5849 -93%
1988 6473 0.001751806 206 6267 -94%
1989 6660 0.001732369 210 6450 -94%
1990 5957 0.001507156 192 5765 -94%
1991 5279 0.001355235 158 5121 -94%
1992 4606 0.001199082 170 4436 -93%
1993 4132 0.00109594 135 3997 -93%
1994 3637 0.000978305 108 3529 -94%
1995 3110 0.000849227 100 3010 -94%
1996 2523 0.000691764 77 2446 -94%
1997 2152 0.000593533 69 2083 -94%
1998 2130 0.000579086 55 2075 -95%
1999 1759 0.000476195 55 1704 -94%
2000 1531 0.000405037 35 1496 -95%
2001 1296 0.00034621 33 1263 -95%
2002 1149 0.00030736 30 1119 -95%
2003 949 0.000249585 25 924 -95%
2004 832 0.000217748 15 817 -96%
2005 791 0.00020573 18 773 -95%
2006 672 0.00016986 19 653 -94%
2007 728 0.000182105 22 706 -94%
2008 630 0.000160278 22 608 -93%
2009 559 0.000146328 15 544 -95%
2010 456 0.000123385 18 438 -92%
2011 377 0.000103068 15 362 -92%
2012 385 0.000105267 13 372 -93%
2013 390 0.000106976 13 377 -93%
2014 367 0.000099019 10 357 -95%
2015 352 0.000095112 11 341 -94%
2016 334 0.00009104 14 320 -92%
2017 316 0.000088362 15 301 -91%
2018 251 0.00007139 9 242 -93%
2019 254 0.000073179 10 244 -92%
2020 256 0.000076633 11 245 -91%
2021 234 0.000069068 13 221 -89%
2022 205 0.000060595 23 182 -78%
2023 187 0.000056475 13 174 -86%
2024 213 0.000063993 16 197 -85%

Explore other names

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