Kori
#978 for girls in 2025, 260 births · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to girls 90.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 475 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,822since 1953
Kori over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #978 | 260 | #3,949 | 27 |
| 2024 | #894 | 299 | #4,072 | 26 |
| 2023 | #810 | 345 | #3,883 | 28 |
| 2022 | #745 | 388 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #676 | 433 | #2,972 | 41 |
| 2020 | #778 | 350 | #3,734 | 28 |
| 2019 | #744 | 380 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #734 | 383 | #4,094 | 25 |
| 2017 | #685 | 426 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #631 | 475 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 2015 | #645 | 444 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #813 | 340 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #941 | 268 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #1,092 | 226 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #1,036 | 240 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #1,136 | 215 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #1,146 | 221 | #3,831 | 27 |
| 2008 | #1,160 | 221 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #1,115 | 232 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | #1,184 | 205 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #1,164 | 198 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | #1,252 | 173 | #3,534 | 26 |
| 2003 | #1,195 | 179 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | #1,205 | 168 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #1,147 | 182 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #970 | 218 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #910 | 232 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #754 | 286 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | #755 | 281 | #2,680 | 29 |
| 1996 | #720 | 291 | #3,406 | 20 |
| 1995 | #702 | 299 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #638 | 342 | #2,259 | 35 |
| 1993 | #675 | 323 | #1,933 | 42 |
| 1992 | #666 | 333 | #2,362 | 31 |
| 1991 | #749 | 277 | #1,744 | 46 |
| 1990 | #793 | 254 | #1,870 | 41 |
| 1989 | #699 | 284 | #1,452 | 57 |
| 1988 | #802 | 230 | #1,790 | 38 |
| 1987 | #786 | 225 | #1,563 | 45 |
| 1986 | #734 | 242 | #1,791 | 34 |
| 1985 | #805 | 205 | #2,357 | 22 |
| 1984 | #935 | 157 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #914 | 164 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #835 | 187 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #825 | 191 | #2,418 | 20 |
| 1980 | #881 | 174 | #1,569 | 38 |
| 1979 | #747 | 217 | #1,753 | 32 |
| 1978 | #687 | 231 | #2,012 | 24 |
| 1977 | #645 | 255 | #1,904 | 26 |
| 1976 | #766 | 187 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #804 | 171 | #2,205 | 20 |
| 1974 | #701 | 209 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #736 | 190 | #2,311 | 17 |
| 1972 | #979 | 123 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #1,084 | 111 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | #1,168 | 99 | #2,293 | 16 |
| 1969 | #1,042 | 110 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #1,311 | 71 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,783 | 42 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,796 | 40 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,768 | 41 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,836 | 41 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #1,754 | 43 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,558 | 52 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #1,640 | 47 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,246 | 27 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,376 | 23 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kori! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kori is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#153 · 1 in 447
- Maryland#199 · 1 in 829
- Louisiana#318 · 1 in 1,235
- Virginia#323 · 1 in 1,428
- Mississippi#336 · 1 in 1,233
Best ever in a state: #98 in Delaware, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #153 | 8 | 1 in 447 |
| Maryland | #199 | 29 | 1 in 829 |
| Louisiana | #318 | 17 | 1 in 1,235 |
| Virginia | #323 | 26 | 1 in 1,428 |
| Mississippi | #336 | 9 | 1 in 1,233 |
| South Carolina | #337 | 13 | 1 in 1,374 |
| Georgia | #354 | 31 | 1 in 1,550 |
| Pennsylvania | #377 | 30 | 1 in 1,728 |
| North Carolina | #404 | 25 | 1 in 1,812 |
| Ohio | #409 | 27 | 1 in 1,928 |
| Tennessee | #442 | 16 | 1 in 1,940 |
| Kentucky | #452 | 9 | 1 in 2,029 |
| Michigan | #486 | 18 | 1 in 2,337 |
| Missouri | #526 | 11 | 1 in 2,466 |
| New Jersey | #539 | 14 | 1 in 2,613 |
| Illinois | #589 | 20 | 1 in 2,881 |
| Florida | #653 | 25 | 1 in 3,468 |
| Oregon | #669 | 5 | 1 in 3,040 |
| Texas | #677 | 47 | 1 in 3,559 |
| New York | #792 | 20 | 1 in 4,492 |
| Colorado | #916 | 5 | 1 in 4,712 |
| Indiana | #1,058 | 5 | 1 in 6,059 |
| California | #1,221 | 24 | 1 in 8,488 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kori
- 84 spots since 2024 (#894 → #978)
- 200 spots since 2020 (#778 → #978)
- 333 spots since 2015 (#645 → #978)
- Biggest jump: 243 spots in 1973 (#979 → #736)
- Biggest drop: 177 spots in 2001 (#970 → #1,147)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2016 at #631 (475 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1972–2000
- Highest: 1 in 3,731 girls born in 2016 were named Kori (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,182 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 22.9% of all girls named Kori (3,397) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 69 | #2,376 (1958) | #3,852 |
| 1960s | 514 | #1,042 (1969) | #1,673 |
| 1970s | 1,793 | #645 (1977) | #832 |
| 1980s | 2,059 | #699 (1989) | #822 |
| 1990s | 2,918 | #638 (1994) | #736 |
| 2000s | 1,997 | #970 (2000) | #1,154 |
| 2010s | 3,397 | #631 (2016) | #846 |
| 2020s | 2,075 | #676 (2021) | #814 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kori in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 3,731 of them was named Kori, which outranked 96.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 67,776 of them was named Kori, which outranked 73.4% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,681Yossi29
- #3,681Zacharia29
- #3,681Zeyad29
- #3,776Kori28
- #3,776Aadhav28
- #3,776Adian28
- #3,776Aleksandar28
- #3,883Ahmet27
- #3,883Alexey27
- #3,883Alexsander27
Tied with 106 names at #3,776; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.