Corene
Feminine · “maiden”
Corene sits at the end of a long line that starts with a Greek word for a girl. Kore was what the Greeks called Persephone before she had a name of her own — simply the maiden — and English has been rebuilding it as Cora, Corinne, Corena and Corene for two centuries.
How old is the name Corene?
Corene first appears in US birth records in 1883 — 142 years ago. The typical Corene alive today was born around 1930, making them about 95 years old. About 1,200 people named Corene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corene most popular?
Corene peaked in 1910, reaching #564 nationally. See the whole 1910 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kore to Corene
The story of Corene
Kore was a title rather than a name: the Greeks used it of Persephone, and archaeologists still use it of the standing statues of girls found across the Greek world. The name Cora, however, does not reach English straight from Greece. It arrives in the nineteenth century, and much of its spread is credited to James Fenimore Cooper, who gave the name to the elder of the two sisters in The Last of the Mohicans in 1826, a book read on both sides of the Atlantic for a century afterwards. Once Cora was established, English lengthened it in every available direction, and Corene is one of those extensions.
Meaningscholars disagree
maiden, girl
The usual derivation is the Greek kore, a girl or maiden, though the chain from that word to the English names runs through several languages and is not documented at every step. Corene itself is an American ending fitted onto the front.
How the name formed
- kore
- Cora
- Corene
Related forms: Corinne · Corina · Corina · Kore
Pronouncing Corene
kuh-REEN
Two syllables with the weight at the back. Front-weighted KOR-een is also heard, particularly from families who think of the name as Cora lengthened.
Nicknames for Corene
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
- 1883
- Most girls named
- 191793 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #564reached in 1910
- Change vs 1995
- −37.5%5 in 1997, from 8
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.
Corene in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corinne in French — related form
- Corina in Italian — related form
- Corina in Spanish — related form
- Kore in Greek — transliteration
Corenes among us
people named Corene 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
Corene 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
- It is read correctly at sight and needs no explanation.
- Cora is available as a short form and is a complete name in its own right.
- The Greek word behind it is one of the oldest and simplest attached to any English name.
- Corene, Coreen, Corine and Corinne are four spellings of nearly one sound.
- The stress is genuinely unsettled, so the name will be said two ways.
- The -ene ending places it in the first half of the twentieth century.
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- How many Corenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Corene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Corene in 2025?
- Corene is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Corene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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