Corry
Masculine
Corry is given to both — 2,166 boys and 314 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Four spellings of this name exist and this is the one that matches nothing. The Irish surname is spelled one way, the Scottish landscape word another, and Corry with a doubled r and a y follows neither convention. It is an American spelling of a sound, arrived at without reference to either source.
How old is the name Corry?
Corry first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Corry alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 2,000 people named Corry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corry most popular?
Corry peaked in 1977, reaching #853 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Corey to Corry
The story of Corry
The name got a considerable push in the middle of the nineteen-seventies from a film about a Dutch family of watchmakers who hid people above their shop during the occupation and were sent to the camps for it. The daughter who survived spent the rest of her life speaking about it, wrote the book the film was taken from, and carried this name in its Dutch spelling. The film was distributed widely through churches rather than cinemas, which is exactly the kind of circulation that moves a name without leaving a mark in the usual places, and the record shows the name peaking within a couple of years of it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Two unrelated sources are available — an Irish surname and a Scottish word for a hollow in a hill — and this spelling matches neither closely enough to claim one. With the route unidentifiable, no sense can be passed on.
How the name formed
- Corey
- Cory
- Corry
Related forms: Corrie
Pronouncing Corry
KOR-ee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. All four spellings of this name are said identically, so the choice is entirely a visual one.
Nicknames for Corry
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1916
- Most boys named
- 1977101 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #853reached in 1977
- Change vs 2020
- −54.5%5 in 2022, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Corry in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corrie in Dutch — spelling variant
Corrys among us
people named Corry are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Corry sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is short, warm and completely unisex without straining for it.
- The sound is settled even though the spelling is not.
- It works for a child and an adult without changing register.
- Corey, Cory and Corrie are all commoner and this spelling gets corrected.
- No meaning can be given honestly, because the source cannot be identified.
- Most children with this spelling are boys, but a real minority are girls; either may be taken for the other.
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Frequently asked
- How many Corrys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Corry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Corry in 2025?
- Corry is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Corry with classmates?
- Corry will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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