Cory

Where Cory comes from

The dictionaries list Cory as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Corey — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #3,505 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1969
    Cory Booker born
    American politician
  4. 1971
    Cory Doctorow born
    Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
  5. 1988
    Peak, #59
    6,266 babies named Cory — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #123.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Corey.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Cori, masculine equivalent Corey.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Cora and Corinne and similar sounding names.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Corazón, from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Cory Booker · American politician, born 1969
  • Cory Doctorow · Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author, born 1971
  • Cory Monteith · Canadian actor, 1982–2013
  • Cory Gardner · United States Senator from Colorado, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.