Kory
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births · #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
Given to boys 91.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 568 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,385since 1952
Kory 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 | #9,457 | 10 | #3,314 | 35 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #2,958 | 42 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #2,693 | 48 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #2,269 | 63 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #2,732 | 46 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #2,467 | 52 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #2,339 | 58 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #2,109 | 65 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,804 | 83 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #1,920 | 75 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #1,878 | 75 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #1,959 | 72 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #1,719 | 86 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #1,816 | 80 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | #1,341 | 125 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #1,202 | 139 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #1,070 | 155 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #1,101 | 143 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #964 | 169 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #973 | 162 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #808 | 207 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #732 | 234 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #687 | 245 |
| 1998 | #4,238 | 26 | #621 | 295 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | #585 | 311 |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 | #558 | 331 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #529 | 365 |
| 1994 | #3,302 | 34 | #502 | 403 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #483 | 435 |
| 1992 | #3,503 | 31 | #471 | 459 |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 | #403 | 565 |
| 1990 | #3,909 | 26 | #388 | 598 |
| 1989 | #2,338 | 50 | #373 | 601 |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 | #360 | 568 |
| 1987 | #2,360 | 44 | #371 | 518 |
| 1986 | #2,148 | 49 | #396 | 457 |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 | #424 | 410 |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | #458 | 337 |
| 1983 | #3,340 | 24 | #472 | 314 |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 | #474 | 317 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 | #464 | 320 |
| 1980 | #2,800 | 32 | #470 | 317 |
| 1979 | #2,218 | 44 | #475 | 300 |
| 1978 | #2,629 | 32 | #460 | 303 |
| 1977 | #2,307 | 39 | #434 | 335 |
| 1976 | #2,334 | 35 | #477 | 275 |
| 1975 | #2,321 | 35 | #502 | 254 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 | #529 | 226 |
| 1973 | #2,753 | 25 | #556 | 203 |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 | #556 | 206 |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 | #564 | 207 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 | #546 | 221 |
| 1969 | #2,645 | 25 | #543 | 208 |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 | #689 | 120 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | #778 | 88 |
| 1966 | — | #830 | 77 | |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 | #724 | 105 |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 | #891 | 73 |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 | #847 | 80 |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 | #862 | 77 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 | #958 | 64 |
| 1960 | — | #973 | 61 | |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | #1,141 | 46 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #1,163 | 44 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | #1,300 | 36 |
| 1956 | — | #1,642 | 23 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,743 | 9 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kory! It came in at #3,734, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1953, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Kory is popular in 1966
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#211 · 1 in 1,292
- Iowa#281 · 1 in 3,380
- Wisconsin#333 · 1 in 6,384
- California#866 · 1 in 23,672
Best ever in a state: #93 in North Dakota, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #211 | 8 | 1 in 1,292 |
| Iowa | #281 | 7 | 1 in 3,380 |
| Wisconsin | #333 | 6 | 1 in 6,384 |
| California | #866 | 7 | 1 in 23,672 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Kory
- 356 spots since 2024 (#2,958 → #3,314)
- 847 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #3,314)
- 1,510 spots since 2015 (#1,804 → #3,314)
- Biggest jump: 168 spots in 1960 (#1,141 → #973)
- Biggest drop: 165 spots in 2002 (#808 → #973)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1988 at #360 (568 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 44 yrs · run 1960–2003
- Highest: 1 in 3,329 boys born in 1989 were named Kory (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #360 in 1988, was only 1 in 3,370 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.9% of all boys named Kory (4,159) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 185 | #1,141 (1959) | #2,114 |
| 1960s | 953 | #543 (1969) | #810 |
| 1970s | 2,530 | #434 (1977) | #510 |
| 1980s | 4,159 | #360 (1988) | #426 |
| 1990s | 4,007 | #388 (1990) | #523 |
| 2000s | 1,549 | #732 (2000) | #1,124 |
| 2010s | 716 | #1,719 (2011) | #2,008 |
| 2020s | 286 | #2,269 (2022) | #2,739 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kory in 1966
Top boys' names in 1966
More about 1966
boys
1,783,461 boys got a published name in 1966; 1 in 23,162 of them was named Kory, which outranked 81.7% of the 4,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).