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Jacorey

#4,924 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jacorey has been given to 2,233 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,924 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 111 recorded.

Babies named Jacorey, 2025

1 in 166,000

Jacorey over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacorey: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacorey means

Jacorey is a given name.

The naming story behind Jacorey

Wikidata records Jacorey as a given name. The entity identifier is Q121422461, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,233 boys were recorded with the name Jacorey between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,416 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,681 in 2020 to #4,924 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,735 in 2015 to #4,924 in 2025.

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.

How common is Jacorey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,924
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacorey 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 2025 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacorey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacoreys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacorey was born before 2005 — so the typical Jacorey is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,233
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (864).

Is Jacorey 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
+25
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,243
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,189
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.0%
Peak was 2009 (111)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,416
1995

Spellings of Jacorey

Jacorey is not the most common spelling — Corey is, with 90.6% against Jacorey's 1.1%.

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.

Where Jacorey is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacorey was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 47,629 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 14,286
  2. 2Georgia1 in 16,667
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jacorey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacorey by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,924
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,243
Best rank ever
#1,416
1995
Peak year
2009
111 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,233
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Jacorey

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

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Names with a curve like Jacorey

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jacorey, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TyrenBrandoJordinTravionQuinlanYovaniGeovannyKollinColtinVarunBrytonJalil

Sibling names for Jacorey

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

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