Last Name CORY

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Meaning Local: At the corrie. It is a Scottish surname that just looks ENglish. Corrie or Cori is the hollow side of the hill where game usually lies.
Local: a town in Scotland. The word conveys the idea of roundness, bending, turning, the winding of a stream. Gaelic, 'car;' Welsh, 'cor,' a circle, a dell, a glen; 'caire,' a circular hollow surrounded by hills.
Origin Scottish, Jewish, Spanish, Irish, South african

Rank 5,584 (2000 US census) 5,797 (1990 US census)
Count 5,704 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.04%, or 5364 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 2.12%, or 121 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.58%, or 33 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.56%, or 32 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.07%, or 61 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.63%, or 93 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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