Cory

Where Cory comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Cory.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Cory through the years
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #3,505 among boys with 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 on, more boys have.
  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, its best rank.
  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.