How Many People Are Named Kory?
people named Kory are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 23,074 people in the US has this name
Based on 15,723 babies named Kory in Social Security records from 1952 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
651 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 Kory in English. Counting Kory and these spellings together, about 334,949 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Kory, 8.7% were girls and 91.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1950s: 12.3% of the babies were girls then and 18.5% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Kory alive today is about 36 years old, and 69% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 29 and 45 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Kory first appears in the records in 1952 and was given most often in 1989, to 651 babies. In 2025, 45 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1952 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Kory has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #360, in 1988. In 2025 it ranked #3,351.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,351 |
| Best rank | #360 (1988) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #422 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Kory alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Kory were born in California than in any other state: about 1,477 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kory was given 3.5 times as often in Iowa, 3.2 times in Utah and 2.8 times in North Dakota.
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