Korie
Feminine
Korie is given to both — 2,496 girls and 492 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Korie is one of the girls' spellings of Corey, a name whose two ancestries — Norse and Irish — reached the same English spelling and stayed there.
How old is the name Korie?
Korie first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Korie alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 2,500 people named Korie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Korie most popular?
Korie peaked in 2013, reaching #1479 nationally. Today it ranks #4067, 2,588 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Korie
Ours, offered as ours. Corey moved into American girls' naming in the 1970s and immediately split into spellings — Korie, Kori, Cori, Corie, Corrie — while the boys' side kept Corey and Cory. That divergence is a real pattern: when a name crosses over, the incoming sex tends to take a new spelling, which marks the change without changing the sound. Korie is a product of that, and its ancestry is genuinely unsettled underneath.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
One line runs from an Old Norse personal name Kori of uncertain sense, another from Irish Ó Comhraidhe. A third possibility is Greek kore, a maiden, which would give a different meaning entirely. None is settled for the modern women's spelling.
Pronouncing Korie
KOR-ee
Two syllables, first stressed. Every spelling of the name sounds the same.
Nicknames for Korie
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
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 2014140 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1479reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- +20.7%35 in 2025, from 29
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.
Korie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corey in English — spelling variant
- Cori in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Kories among us
people named Korie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was named Korie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Korie
- #4067
- Korie on the 2025 chart
- #865
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Korie went to 35 girls in 2025, but Corrie, Corie and Korrie are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 95, which makes it the 865th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,202 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 16,919 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 45,922 for Korie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alyshia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Korie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alyshia climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alyshia's path sketches the road Korie is walking now.
Korie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Korie is headed
Korie is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Korie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Korie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Two documented ancestries, Norse and Irish, both real.
- Corey and Cory are far more common and will be written for her.
- Korie, Kori, Cori and Corrie are four live spellings of one sound.
- There is no settled meaning for any of the ancestries.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kories are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Korie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Korie?
- Korie is the most-used spelling in US records — 35 of the 95 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Corrie, Corie and Korrie.
- How popular is the name Korie in 2025?
- Korie ranks #4067 among US girl names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Korie?
- About 1 in every 45,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Korie — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Korie with classmates?
- Korie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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