Kori

What Kori means

Form of Corey, possibly meaning “troop, host, company”

variant of Cory || An English surname from Old Norse from the Old Norse given name Kóri, itself perhaps from Old Irish Cuire, from cuire (“troop, host, company”), from Proto-Celtic *koryos (“army, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Kori” (revision 77898274) and “Corey” (revision 92413045), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Kori?

US: Falling: down from #645 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2016, when 475 girls got the name (#631 that year). First in the US records in 1953.

How common

• About 1 in 6,182 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MS (0.67 per 1,000 girls), KS (0.59 per 1,000 girls), AL (0.55 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Kori is #978 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 90.6% of US babies named Kori were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Cora2,428 US · 368 E&W
• Kira801 US · 89 E&W
• Kora603 US · 23 E&W
• Kyra329 US · 88 E&W
• Kara226 US · 31 E&W
• Kairi239 US · 9 E&W
• Korra153 US · 9 E&W
• Cori100 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kori

Girls

• Blake#295“black”^*
• Fallon#778“descendant of Fallamhan”^*
• Murphy#397“descendant of Murrough”^*
• Darcy#857“to burn, consume”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*

For a brother

• Sterling#345Variant of Stirling, possibly meaning “stream + pool, lake”^*
• Kendrick#535Editor’s note Down from #366 in 2015 to #535 in 2025 in the US
• Wallace#960“foreign”^*
• Calvin#132“bald”^*
• Wade#344“a ford”^*
• Wesley#52“west + wood, clearing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kori’s. Rank is US 2025.