Coreen
Feminine · “maiden”
The -een ending is Irish, and this name is not. Doreen, Noreen, Maureen and Kathleen all carry a genuine Irish diminutive; Coreen borrows the same ending and attaches it to a Greek base, which is a pattern English used freely once it had the ending to hand.
How old is the name Coreen?
Coreen first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Coreen alive today was born around 1966, making them about 59 years old. About 2,000 people named Coreen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Coreen most popular?
Coreen peaked in 1968, reaching #1267 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cora to Coreen
The story of Coreen
Irish makes affectionate forms with -in, said een, and English borrowed the finished names — Maureen from Mary, Noreen from Nora, Doreen from Dora — without borrowing the grammar. Once the ending was loose it went where it liked. Coreen, Sharleen, Charleen and Arleen all use it on bases that have nothing Irish about them, and the result is a set of names that read as Irish to Americans and as nothing at all to the Irish. That is a very common shape for an American name and one of the harder ones to see from inside.
Meaningscholars disagree
maiden, girl
The base is generally traced to a Greek word for a girl by way of Cora. The ending is an anglicized Irish diminutive and carries no meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- Cora
- Coreen
Pronouncing Coreen
kaw-REEN
Two syllables with the weight at the back. Front-weighted KOR-een is also heard.
Nicknames for Coreen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1900
- Most girls named
- 196875 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1267reached in 1968
- Change vs 2000
- −28.6%5 in 2005, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Coreens among us
people named Coreen are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Coreen sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both parts are familiar, so the name is read correctly at sight.
- The ee ending removes any question about the vowel.
- Cora works as a short form and is a complete name in its own right.
- Corine, Corinne and Coreen are all in the record and will be confused.
- The Irish-looking ending has no Irish history on this base.
- It reads clearly as a name of the first half of the twentieth century.
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- How many Coreens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Coreen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Coreen in 2025?
- Coreen is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Coreen with classmates?
- Coreen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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