How Many People Are Named Korey?
people named Korey are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 27,805 people in the US has this name
Based on 12,863 babies named Korey in Social Security records from 1953 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
551 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of COREY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Korey in English. Counting Korey and these spellings together, about 334,949 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Korey, 11.2% were girls and 88.8% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1960s: 14.8% of the babies were girls then and 13.2% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Korey alive today is about 32 years old, and 60% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 23 and 40 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Korey first appears in the records in 1953 and was given most often in 1990, to 551 babies. In 2025, 54 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1953 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Korey has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #427, in 1989. In 2025 it ranked #2,736. Among girls, its best rank was #2,237, in 1977.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,736 | #12,579 |
| Best rank | #427 (1989) | #2,237 (1977) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #570 in the 1990s | #3,219 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Korey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Korey were born in California than in any other state: about 842 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Korey was given 2.3 times as often in Louisiana, 2.1 times in Iowa and 1.9 times in Michigan.
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