Corydon

Boys' name

Crested lark

Corydon has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Corydon, 2002

1 in 747,000

Corydon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Corydon: meaning, origin, and history

Crested lark

Greek

What Corydon means

Corydon means “crested lark”, associated with kórudos.

Origin, language, and formation

Corydon is used in English. Its origins include Greek.

Corydon comes through Ancient Greek κόρυδος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 190 boys were recorded with the name Corydon between 1916 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1978; its best national rank was #2,960 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Corydon?

Corydon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002: 1 in 747,000; 5 of 3,737,275 births
Among boys only: 1 in 388,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2002: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 518,097 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Corydon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Corydon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Corydons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Corydon was born before 1978 — so the typical Corydon is around 47 today.

Median birth year: 1978; About 47 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 53.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 136; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Corydon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1978 (9)
Years since peak: 47; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,960; 1946

Spellings of Corydon

Corydon is not the most common spelling — Gordon is, with 91.1% against Corydon's 0.11%.

Gordon91.1%154,909
Jordon8.1%13,762
Caydon0.39%666
Brydon0.32%539
Corydon0.11%190

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Corydon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,960; 1946
Peak year: 1978; 9 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 2002
All-time count: 190
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Corydon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Cordon Cormick Corrado Corleone Cordale Cordney Corvus Coreyon Cortlin Cordera Correll Cormack Cortlan Corrion Corliss Corbitt Greydon Cordae Corday Cordaryl Corrigan Rigdon Cornie Kashdon

Sibling names for Corydon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shanta Imelda Lakesha Aja Jason Bambi Kevin Shanika

For a brother

Delvin Torrey Jed Kristofer Tory Aric Rodrick Leopoldo

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