Cory
As a given name, Cory is used by both males and females. It is a variation of the name Cora, meaning " 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.
Notable people or fictional characters named Cory include
- Cory Aldridge, American baseball player
- Cory Alexander, American basketball player
- Cory Arcangel, American digital artist
- Cory Asbury, American musician and pastor
- Cory Bent, English footballer
- Cory Booker, American politician from New Jersey
- Cory Bowles, Canadian actor and choreographer
- Cory Cadden, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cory Carr, American-Israeli basketball player
- Cory Conacher, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cory Cory-Wright, British businessman
- Cory Cotton, writer and member of the American sports conglomerate Dude Perfect
- Cory Cyrenne, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cory Doctorow, Canadian journalist and author
- Cory Doran, Canadian voice actor
- Cory Edwards, American writer and director
- Cory Everson, American bodybuilder and actress
- Cory Finley, American screenwriter, playwright, and director
- Cory Fong, American public servant
- Cory Gearrin, American baseball player
- Cory Gibbs, American association footballer
- Cory Hardrict, American actor
- Cory Henry, American pianist, organist and singer-songwriter
- Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player
- Cory Kennedy (model), American model
- Cory Kennedy (skateboarder), American skateboarder
- Cory La Quay, American drummer, A Skylit Drive
- Cory Lerios, American pianist and vocalist
- Cory Leslie, American steeplechase runner
- Cory Lewis, American baseball player
- Cory Lidle, American baseball player
- Cory Marks, Canadian singer
- Cory McGrath, Australian footballer
- Cory Monteith, Canadian actor
- Cory Morgan (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
- Cory Morrow, American singer-songwriter
- Cory Nelms, American football player
- Cory Paterson, Australian rugby player
- Cory Pecker, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cory Philpot, Canadian football player
- Cory Quirino, Filipino TV host
- Cory Redding, American football player
- Cory Rooney, American songwriter and record producer
- Cory Sarich, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cory Schlesinger, American footballer
- Cory Spangenberg, American baseball player
- Cory Spinks, American boxer
- Cory Stillman, Canadian ice hockey player
- Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
- Cory Trice, American football player
- Cory Vidanes, Filipina executive and businesswoman
- Cory Wade, American baseball player
- Cory Walker, American comic book artist
- Cory Wells, American singer
- Cory T. Williams, American attorney and Democratic politician
- Cory Williams, American YouTube personality
- Cory DeVante Williams, American YouTube personality
- Cory Witherill, American race car driver
- Cory Wong, American guitarist
Surname
- Annie Sophie Cory, English author
- Asa Howe Cory, American soldier
- Arthur Cory, American politician
- Charles B. Cory, American ornithologist and golfer
- Clifford Cory, Welsh coal owner and politician
- Donald Webster Cory, pen name of Edward Sagarin
- Eleanor Cory, American composer
- Fanny Cory, American illustrator of the Little Miss Muffet comic book
- Florence Elizabeth Cory, American industrial designer and school founder
- George Cory (historian), South African chemist and historian
- George Norton Cory, Canadian Lieutenant-General
- J. Campbell Cory, American cartoonist
- John Cory, British philanthropist, coal-owner, and shipowner
- John M. Cory, American librarian
- Judith A. Cory, Oscar-nominated makeup artist
- Kate Cory, American photographer and painter
- Peter Cory, Canadian jurist
- Robert Cory, English churchman and moral philosopher
- William Johnson Cory, English educator and poet
- William Wallace Cory, Canadian politician
Nickname
- Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician and president
Fictional characters
- Cory Baxter, from the TV series That's So Raven and Cory in the House
- Cory Dollanganger, from the 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
- Cory Ellison, from the TV series The Morning Show
- Cory Matthews, from the TV series Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World
- Cory Maxson, from the play Fences, by August Wilson
- "Richard Cory", the subject of an 1897 poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- The Cory family, from the soap opera ''Another World''