Kori

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kori: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kori: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #266 in 2008, and it stood at #619 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#266highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2022

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2738
2000	#3912
2001	#3262
2003	#2727
2005	#1934
2006	#5061
2009	#3936
2013	#5742
2015	#4736
2017	#5765
2020	#5493
2021	#4634
2022	#4645

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2023.

In 2006: #764 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #5061 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1765 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2008–2011
Highest recorded position: #266 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2008 (recorded 2008–2011).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4991 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Boys

Kori appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 242 births with the name.

Kori across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kori's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#982 (2005)	#4991 (2023)	28 of 28	242 (1996–2023)	22 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#2738 (1997)	#1934 (2005)	#4645 (2022)	13 of 26	58 (1997–2022)	11 (2005)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#266 (2008)	#266 (2008)	#375 (2011)	2 of 4	9 (2008–2011)	6 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#689 (2005)	#764 (2006)	2 of 2	6 (2005–2006)	3 (2005)

Kori by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kori in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	29	4 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	114	10 of 10	11
2010s	81	10 of 10	8
2020s	18	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kori appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #266 in Northern Ireland in 2008.

Kori's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1920	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1788	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1911	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1457	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#982	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1410	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#266	6	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #266, first reached in 2008.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 22 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Korey · #265, 29y
Kornel · #366, 19y
Kornelia · #130, 32y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ella-Mae · #266, 30y
Maxim · #266, 30y
Mia-Rose · #266, 26y
Devon · #267, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Angharad · #266, 28y
Blessing · #266, 29y
Ella-Mae · #266, 30y
Kia · #266, 28y

Kori was ranked #266 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kori and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kori without appearing here.

Kori moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2008 they stood at #5061 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #3936 and #5556.
Tayla Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2005 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1410 and #2857.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2005 and #3225.
Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #5669.

Moved ahead of Kori

Luca Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1934 and #2247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #5061 and #2320.
Willow Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #4001 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4991 and #2325.
Gustav Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2682 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #2125.
Mila Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2738 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Kori

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kori went from #1765 to #4991 while Albie went from #853 to #22.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kori went from #1765 to #4991 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kori went from #1765 to #4991 while Alfred went from #218 to #76.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kori went from #1765 to #4991 while Archie went from #192 to #13.

Moved the same way as Kori

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kori went from #1765 to #4991 and Aaron from #33 to #146.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kori went from #1765 to #4991 and Adam from #16 to #41.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kori went from #1765 to #4991 and Alan from #163 to #464.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Kori went from #1765 to #4991 and Alexander from #14 to #34.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #266 in Northern Ireland in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kori

Kori at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kori across 4 official records

Kori by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kori appears in

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Kori at a glance

Kori across 4 official records

Kori by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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