Corey

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

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹi

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."

• Coyer, Royce, coyer