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Corby

Recorded 1922–2025 · United States

Corby was most popular in 1973, when 64 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,391 that year. In 2025 it ranked #24,763, with 5 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,658 people named Corby.

Most popular in1973
Rank that year#2,391
Births that year64
Total since 18801,658
Given to82% boys
Alive today~1,000
Median age51

Corby over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Corby’s peak in 1973. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Corby?

Corby first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1922, which makes it about 103 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 72 of the 104 years since.

How many people are named Corby?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,658 American births named Corby between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,450 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Corby in 2025?

5 American babies were named Corby in 2025, ranking #24,763 that year.

Is Corby getting more or less popular?

Corby is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025 against 6 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Corby a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Corby is mostly a boy’s name — 18.3% of the 1,658 Americans given it were girls and 81.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 1959 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Corby?

Roughly 1,450 Americans named Corby are alive today — 87% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 39 and 61.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Corby is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org