Corey

See also: corey

English

Alternative forms

• (English surname): Cory
• (male give name): Cory, Kory, Korey

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹi

Proper noun

Corey

1. An English surname from Old Norse from the Old Norse given name Kóri, itself perhaps from Old Irish Cuire, from cuire (“troop, host, company”), from Proto-Celtic *koryos (“army, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”).
2. A surname from Irish, a variant anglicization of Ó Comhraidhe (Curry).
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1968 October 17, Jet, volume 35, number 2, page 61:

     Miss Carroll's popularity doesn't end with her on-screen performances in the show which co-stars young Marc Copage as her precocious six-year-old son, Corey Baker, whose father Capt. Baker was killed in Vietnam.

4. (rare) A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Cori.
   • 1996, Barbara Bretton, Guilty Pleasures, Mira Books, →ISBN, page 156:

     "I'm Millicent Banning and —" she pushed Corey forward "— this is my daughter Catherine, but we all call her Corey."

Anagrams

• Coyer, Royce, coyer