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Corey vs Cory - What's the difference?

corey | cory | Alternative forms |

Cory is a alternative form of corey.



As proper nouns the difference between corey and cory

is that corey is {{surname|from=Irish} while Cory is {{surname|from=Irish}.

As a noun cory is

any fish belonging to the genus genus: Corydoras, a group of South American freshwater catfish.

corey

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1968 , Vol. 35, No. 2, October 17th, 1968, 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.
  • (lb) .
  • * 1996 Barbara Bretton, Guilty Pleasures , Mira Books, ISBN 1551661705, page 156:
    • "I'm Millicent Banning and —" she pushed Corey' forward "— this is my daughter Catherine, but we all call her ' Corey ."

    Anagrams

    * * English surnames from given names

    cory

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Corey * Cori, Kori, Korey, Kory

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 2005 Robert L. Fried, The Game of School , Jossey-bass, ISBN 0787973475, page 42:
    • On another poster are the names of the new class — unusual names (at least to me) like Wen Qi, Elijah, Yoav, Noni, Koray, Cai Ying and Julissa, along with more common names like Cory , Betty, Tammy, Jordan, Jeffrey, and Andrew.
  • (less common than the male name) transferred from the surname, also a pet form of Cora, Corinne and similar sounding names.
  • * 1991 Clark D. Neher, Southeast Asia in the New International Era , Westview Press, ISBN 0813311799, page 58:
    • Corazon "Cory " Aquino, the widow of the martyred Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., emerged as the person around whom all the oppositionists could coalesce.
  • * 1998 Robyn Amos, Into the Night , ISBN 0786005599, page 61:
    • I went to high school with a girl named Corrine, though, and everyone called her Cory —

    References

    Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges : A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988. English surnames from given names