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“Variant of Cory — troop, army (Old Norse/Irish); or hollow (Gaelic)” — Old Norse via Old Irish, or Gaelic (disputed) origin
Girl's name · #978 in the US (2025) · 2020s
Kori reached its best rank, #631, in 2016 and ranked #978 in 2025. About 15,000 girls have carried it since 1953. In Mississippi and Louisiana it runs 3–5× its national rate. Together with its spelling variant Cori (#1932), Kori would rank around #754 with about 360 births last year — the newborns split about 72/28 between Kori and Cori.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 26 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 34 notable people named Kori:
Sports figures appear 2.37× more often than among typical names — e.g. Kori Kelley Seehafer, cyclist.
Similar names: Cori · Hadlee · Kora · Moriah · Kinslee · Rori
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