Corky
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Corky is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Corky Corneliusb. 1914USAmerican musician (1914-1943)
- Corky Haleb. 1936USAmerican musician
- Corky Siegelb. 1943USmusician
- Corky Leeb. 1947USAmerican photographer (1947–2021)
- Corky Carrollb. 1947USAmerican surfer
- Laurence Laingb. 1948CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician
- Corky Calhounb. 1950USAmerican basketball player (born 1950)
- Corky Jamesb. 1954USAmerican musician
- Corky Millerb. 1976USAmerican baseball player
- Corky EhlersUSAmerican television and film editor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Corky mean, and where does it come from?
- Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Corky a male or female name?
- Corky is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Corky have the most bearers?
- Corky is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/corkyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Corky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.