The story in the numbers

184,687 boys have been named Corey in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 8,004 births — 0.40% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 384 → 678).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 29%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 28 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 9,033 girls have also been given it, 4.7% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

By decade

Decade

boys named Corey

223

1,856

9,969

40,998

53,604

50,221

17,467

7,987

2,321

In 1989, its biggest year

Corey was the 55th 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 Corey

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.