girls:
303 births since 1954
#5413 (5th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1922
#3274 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1922
#6096 (21st percentile)
The name Corby is the #6,096 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,653 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 21.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,274 (28.6% percentile) for all time with 1,350 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,413 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 303 births since 1954.
Corby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1954 for girls). Birth data for Corby is available in 71 out of the 100 years between 1922 and 2021 (71 years for boys and 26 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Corby has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Corby were boys.
For boys, Corby reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #590) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 37 births per million (ranked 8.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Corby reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #689) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Corby".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Corby.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Corby", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Corby.
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Corby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Corby is pronounced as KOR-bee, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Corby? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Corby. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Corby, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K AO1 R B IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker