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How popular is “Kory” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kory” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kory” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kory” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kory” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kory” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kory” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kory” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 23 0.000005578 23 -100%
1957 42 0.000009995 6 36 -71%
1958 50 0.000012095 6 44 -76%
1959 60 0.00001443 14 46 -53%
1960 61 0.000014685 61 -100%
1961 77 0.000018589 12 65 -69%
1962 90 0.000022303 13 77 -71%
1963 94 0.000023748 14 80 -70%
1964 85 0.000021864 12 73 -72%
1965 113 0.000031169 8 105 -86%
1966 77 0.000022154 77 -100%
1967 99 0.000029161 11 88 -78%
1968 134 0.000039664 14 120 -79%
1969 233 0.000067044 25 208 -79%
1970 235 0.00006516 14 221 -88%
1971 226 0.000065844 19 207 -83%
1972 235 0.000074769 29 206 -75%
1973 228 0.000075575 25 203 -78%
1974 250 0.000082237 24 226 -81%
1975 289 0.000095715 35 254 -76%
1976 310 0.000102165 35 275 -77%
1977 374 0.00011774 39 335 -79%
1978 335 0.000105549 32 303 -81%
1979 344 0.000103396 44 300 -74%
1980 349 0.000101321 32 317 -82%
1981 347 0.000100307 27 320 -84%
1982 350 0.000099773 33 317 -81%
1983 338 0.000097594 24 314 -86%
1984 373 0.000106915 36 337 -81%
1985 440 0.00012328 30 410 -86%
1986 506 0.000142252 49 457 -81%
1987 562 0.000155868 44 518 -84%
1988 594 0.000160756 26 568 -91%
1989 651 0.000169335 50 601 -85%
1990 626 0.000158382 28 598 -91%
1991 597 0.000153263 32 565 -89%
1992 490 0.000127562 31 459 -87%
1993 463 0.000122803 28 435 -88%
1994 437 0.000117547 34 403 -84%
1995 392 0.000107041 27 365 -86%
1996 354 0.000097061 23 331 -87%
1997 333 0.000091843 22 311 -87%
1998 321 0.000087271 26 295 -84%
1999 261 0.000070658 16 245 -88%
2000 246 0.000065081 12 234 -90%
2001 222 0.000059305 15 207 -86%
2002 174 0.000046545 12 162 -86%
2003 181 0.000047603 12 169 -87%
2004 155 0.000040566 12 143 -85%
2005 167 0.000043435 12 155 -86%
2006 148 0.00003741 9 139 -88%
2007 138 0.00003452 13 125 -81%
2008 125 0.000031801 6 119 -90%
2009 103 0.000026962 7 96 -86%
2010 86 0.00002327 6 80 -86%
2011 95 0.000025972 9 86 -81%
2012 80 0.000021874 8 72 -80%
2013 87 0.000023864 12 75 -72%
2014 89 0.000024013 14 75 -69%
2015 101 0.000027291 18 83 -64%
2016 94 0.000025622 22 72 -53%
2017 74 0.000020692 9 65 -76%
2018 61 0.00001735 11 50 -64%
2019 65 0.000018727 7 58 -78%
2020 65 0.000019458 13 52 -60%
2021 56 0.000016529 10 46 -64%
2022 75 0.000022169 13 62 -65%
2023 56 0.000016912 8 48 -71%
2024 53 0.000015923 11 42 -58%

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