girls:
1.4k births since 1959
#4327 (24th percentile)
boys:
11.3k births since 1953
#1084 (76th percentile)
overall:
12.7k births since 1953
#2335 (70th percentile)
The name Korey is the #2,335 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,744 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 69.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,084 (76.4% percentile) for all time with 11,342 births since 1953. For girls, it ranks #4,327 (24.3% percentile) for all time with 1,402 births since 1959.
Korey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (1953 for boys and 1959 for girls). Birth data for Korey is available in 70 out of the 71 years between 1953 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 62 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 Korey has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Korey were boys.
For boys, Korey reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 48.4% percentile (ranked #391) with 231 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 236 births per million (ranked 47.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1991, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Korey ranks #852 for boys (6.5% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 14.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Korey reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #773) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Korey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Korey is pronounced as KAW-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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