girls:
12k births since 1947
#1434 (75th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1960
#3390 (26th percentile)
overall:
13.2k births since 1947
#2285 (70th percentile)
The name Cori is the #2,285 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,204 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 70.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,434 (74.9% percentile) for all time with 11,987 births since 1947. For boys, it ranks #3,390 (26.0% percentile) for all time with 1,217 births since 1960.
Cori first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for girls and 1960 for boys). Birth data for Cori is available in 75 out of the 77 years between 1947 and 2023 (75 years for girls and 56 years for boys). 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 Cori has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 94.1% of babies named Cori were girls.
For girls, Cori reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 44.2% percentile (ranked #429) with 241 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 241 births per million (ranked 44.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cori ranks #841 for girls (11.2% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 26.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cori reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 6.3% percentile (ranked #680) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 25 births per million (ranked 6.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cori ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 15.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cori".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cori is pronounced as KAW-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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