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As a given name, Cory is used by both males and females. It is a variation of the name Cora, meaning "(the) Maiden", which is a title of the goddess Persephone. The name also can have origins from the Gaelic word coire, which means "in a cauldron", or "in a hollow".

As a surname, it has a number of possible derivations, including an Old Norse personal name Kori of uncertain meaning, which is found in Scandinavia and England. As an Irish surname it comes from Ó Comhraidhe (descendant of Comhraidheh).

Notable people or fictional characters named Cory include

Cory Aldridge (born 1979), American baseball player

Cory Alexander (born 1973), American basketball player

Cory Arcangel (born 1978), American digital artist

Cory Asbury (born 1985), American musician and pastor

Cory Barlog (born 1975), American video game developer.

Cory Bent (born 1997), English footballer

Cory Booker (born 1969), American politician from New Jersey

Cory Bowles (born 1973), Canadian actor and choreographer

Cory Cadden (1969–2017), Canadian ice hockey player

Cory Carr (born 1975), American-Israeli basketball player

Cory Conacher (born 1989), Canadian ice hockey player

Cory Cory-Wright (1838–1909), British businessman

Cory Cotton (born 1987), writer and member of the American sports conglomerate Dude Perfect

Cory Cyrenne (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player

Cory Doctorow (born 1971), Canadian journalist and author

Cory Doran (born 1982), Canadian voice actor

Cory Edwards, American writer and director

Cory Everson (born 1958), American bodybuilder and actress

Cory Finley, American screenwriter, playwright, and director

Cory Fong (born 1972), American public servant

Cory Gearrin (born 1986), American baseball player

Cory Gibbs (born 1980), American association footballer

Cory Hardrict (born 1979), American actor

Cory Henry (born 1987), American pianist, organist and singer-songwriter

Cory Jane (born 1983), New Zealand rugby player

Cory Kennedy (model) (born 1990), American model

Cory Kennedy (skateboarder), American skateboarder

Cory La Quay, American drummer, A Skylit Drive

Cory Lerios (born 1951), American pianist and vocalist

Cory Leslie (born 1989), American steeplechase runner

Cory Lewis (born 2000), American baseball player

Cory Lidle (1972–2006), American baseball player

Cory Marks, Canadian singer

Cory McGrath (born 1979), Australian footballer

Cory Monteith (1982–2013), Canadian actor

Cory Morgan (ice hockey) (born 1978), Canadian ice hockey player

Cory Morrow (born 1972), American singer-songwriter

Cory Nelms (born 1988), American football player

Cory Paterson (born 1987), Australian rugby player

Cory Pecker (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player

Cory Philpot (born 1970), Canadian football player

Cory Quirino (born 1953), Filipino TV host

Cory Redding (born 1980), American football player

Cory Rooney, American songwriter and record producer

Cory Sarich (born 1978), Canadian ice hockey player

Cory Schlesinger (born 1972), American footballer

Cory Spangenberg (born 1991), American baseball player

Cory Spinks (born 1978), American boxer

Cory Stillman (born 1973), Canadian ice hockey player

Cory Sullivan (born 1979), American baseball player

Cory Trice (born 2000), American football player

Cory Vidanes (born 1962), Filipina executive and businesswoman

Cory Wade (born 1983), American baseball player

Cory Walker (born 1980), American comic book artist

Cory Wells (1941–2015), American singer

Cory T. Williams, American attorney and Democratic politician

Cory Williams (born 1981), American YouTube personality

Cory DeVante Williams (born 1992), American YouTube personality

Cory Witherill (born 1971), American race car driver

Cory Wong (born c. 1985), American guitarist

Surname

Annie Sophie Cory (1868–1952), English author

Asa Howe Cory (1814–1892), American soldier

Arthur Cory (1880–1974), American politician

Charles B. Cory (1857–1921), American ornithologist and golfer

Clifford Cory (1859–1941), Welsh coal owner and politician

Donald Webster Cory, pen name of Edward Sagarin (1913–1986)

Eleanor Cory (born 1943), American composer

Fanny Cory, American illustrator of the Little Miss Muffet comic book

Florence Elizabeth Cory (1851–1902), American industrial designer and school founder

George Cory (historian) (1862–1935), South African chemist and historian

George Norton Cory (1874–1968), Canadian Lieutenant-General

J. Campbell Cory (1867–1925), American cartoonist

John Cory (1828–1910), British philanthropist, coal-owner, and shipowner

John M. Cory (1914–1988), American librarian

Judith A. Cory, Oscar-nominated makeup artist

Kate Cory (1861–1958), American photographer and painter

Peter Cory (1925–2020), Canadian jurist

Robert Cory, English churchman and moral philosopher

William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), English educator and poet

William Wallace Cory (1865–1943), Canadian politician

Nickname

Corazon Aquino (1933–2009), Filipino politician and president

Fictional characters

Cory Baxter, from the TV series That's So Raven and Cory in the House

Cory Matthews, from the TV series Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World

"Richard Cory", the subject of an 1897 poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Cory family, from the soap opera Another World

Corey

Cori (disambiguation)

Corie, given name

Corrie (given name)

Corrie (surname)

Kori (disambiguation)

Kory (given name)

Korey, given name and surname

Kory (disambiguation), includes a list of people with the surname Kory