Kory

Where Kory comes from

20th-century US variant of Cory.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kory
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1952
    First appearance
    #3,734 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1962
    Kory Tarpenning born
    pole vaulter
  3. 1985
    Kory Lichtensteiger born
    American football player
  4. 1988
    Peak, #360
    568 babies named Kory — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #687.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Kory Johnson · American environmentalist
  • Kory Lichtensteiger · American football player, born 1985
  • Kory Tarpenning · pole vaulter, born 1962
  • Kory Kocur · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1969
  • Kory Sheets · player of American and Canadian football, born 1985

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.