How Many People Are Named Kori?
people named Kori are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 21,373 people in the US has this name
Based on 16,387 babies named Kori in Social Security records from 1953 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
503 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
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 Kori in English. Counting Kori and these spellings together, about 41,018 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Kori, 90.6% were girls and 9.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1960s: 97.2% of the babies were girls then and 92.1% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Kori alive today is about 25 years old, and 58% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 38 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Kori first appears in the records in 1953 and was given most often in 2016, to 503 babies. In 2025, 287 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1953 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Kori has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #631, in 2016. In 2025 it ranked #978.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #978 |
| Best rank | #631 (2016) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #817 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Kori alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Kori were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,283 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kori was given 2.7 times as often in Maryland, 2.3 times in Louisiana and 1.6 times in Georgia.
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