How Many People Are Named Cori?

12,910

people named Cori are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 26,474 people in the US has this name

Based on 13,431 babies named Cori in Social Security records from 1947 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,101

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,149

See the top 100

Peak Year

1977

435 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: KAWR-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Feminine form of COREY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Cori in English. Counting Cori and these spellings together, about 41,018 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
90.9%
Male
9.1%

Of the babies given the name Cori, 90.9% were girls and 9.1% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1950s: 100% of the babies were girls then and 93.1% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Cori alive today is about 35 years old, and 65% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 26 and 47 in 2025.

Under 30 3,967
30.7%
30 to 59 8,334
64.5%
60 and over 610
4.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Cori first appears in the records in 1947 and was given most often in 1977, to 435 babies. In 2025, 106 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1947 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Cori has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #482, in 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,932.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,932
Best rank#482 (1977)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#639 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Cori alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Cori were born in California than in any other state: about 1,319 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cori was given 2.4 times as often in Utah, 1.6 times in Colorado and 1.6 times in Washington.

California 1,319
Texas 885
New York 651
Illinois 478
Ohio 471
Florida 425
Pennsylvania 403
Michigan 318
Georgia 249
Washington 232
New Jersey 231
Indiana 216
Utah 188
Colorado 179
Maryland 175
Massachusetts 171
Missouri 168
Wisconsin 155
North Carolina 151
Arizona 132
Tennessee 129
Louisiana 124
Oregon 110
Virginia 110
Minnesota 105
Oklahoma 79
Kentucky 69
Alabama 58
Iowa 48
Nebraska 45
Connecticut 43
Kansas 43
Hawaii 29
Idaho 22
Montana 20
South Carolina 16
Mississippi 13
Wyoming 11
Alaska 6
New Mexico 5
New Hampshire 5

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