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The first name 
Corey

Corey is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Corey – popular and common in the US!

The name Corey isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Corey ranks 420. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Corey. In the entire USA, approximately 187,710 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Corey. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Corey

What does the name 
Corey mean?

The name Corey derived from different languages and has different meanings. It could originate from the Old Norse given name Kóri with unknown meaning, from the Gaelic word ‘coire’ meaning ‘in a hollow’, or it could be the masculine form of Greek Kore, meaning ‘maiden’.

In the U.S.,... this name became popular in the 1960s due to the character Corey Baker on the television series 'Julia'.

Corey -
carrying the 80s and 90s into our century

This was a real surprise! Corey is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #50 in the year 1977, when 6,394 parents chose this name for their newborn son. This made Corey much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this boys' name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Corey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Corey - a popular player in the midfield

In 2022, Corey ranked 580 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn boys a total of 453 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Corey will remain a universally popular name.

Corey -
well known in all states of the USA, most popular in Louisiana

There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Corey is one of them. However, Corey is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Louisiana seem to particularly fancy this name – the 6,675 men called Corey who live here are 0,227% of all male residents and push their name up to #99 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Louisiana. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 187,710 people with the name Corey. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Corey on position 186 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Corey has 5 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.

With five letters, the name Corey is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.

Other names with 
C, o, r, e and y

If you take all the letters in the name Corey – C, o, r, e and y – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Corye or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Corey

If your name is Corey and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Corey

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Corey, you can simply say:

Cat

Orange

Rocket

Elephant

Yoyo

This is how the name Corey is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Corey in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Corey

Corey

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Corey

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Corey is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
O
R
E
Y

Have you ever waved the name Corey

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
O
R
E
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Corey sounds like this: