Kori is the feminine form of Corey, originally an English surname of unclear meaning. One possible meaning is ‘dwellers in a hollow’, which comes from the Gaelic word ‘coire,’ meaning ‘hollow’.
Kori is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
The name Kori 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 girls names, Kori ranks 682. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Kori. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kori.
Kori is the feminine form of Corey, originally an English surname of unclear meaning. One possible meaning is ‘dwellers in a hollow’, which comes from the Gaelic word ‘coire,’ meaning ‘hollow’.
The other possible... meaning is 'the selected one', which is derived from the Old Norse name Kóri.
Kori is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kori cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #558 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2016. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kori, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Kori seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kori was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
413 babies were named Kori in 2022 - that's 1 in 384,020 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kori ranked 645 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Kori is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kori 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kori, you can simply say:
Koala
Orange
Rocket
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kori
Kori
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
O
R
I
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.
K
O
R
I
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. Kori sounds like this:
