Corin
Feminine · “of Quirinus”
Corin is given to both — 1,696 girls and 996 boys since 1880. See Corin as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Rome began with three gods, not one. Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus were the original triad, and Quirinus was the deified Romulus — the founder, promoted after death. He had a hill named for him, the Quirinal, which is now where the Italian president lives, and almost nobody remembers who he was.
How old is the name Corin?
Corin first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Corin alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,700 people named Corin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corin most popular?
Corin peaked in 1978, reaching #1581 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 10,351 places below that high. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Quirinus to Corin
The story of Corin
Quirinus faded early. By the classical period Romans were already unsure who he was, and he survives mainly in the name of a hill and a handful of adjectives. The name persisted through several early martyrs called Quirinus, which is how it reached French as Corin. It then had a second and quite separate life in English literature: pastoral poetry needed shepherds and used a fixed cast of names for them, and Corin is one of them — Spenser uses it, and so does Shakespeare, who gives it to a real shepherd in a play full of people pretending to be shepherds. The name has been used for both girls and boys in American records from the start.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Quirinus
Usually traced to the Roman name Quirinus, of unclear origin itself, through the saint's name Quirinus and its French form Corin. A separate account treats Corin as a pastoral name from the Latin poetic tradition, where shepherds are called Corydon and Corin as a convention rather than a family name.
How the name formed
- Quirinus
- Corin
Related forms: Corin · Quirinus
Pronouncing Corin
KOR-in
Two syllables, stress on the first. kuh-RIN, with the weight at the end, is used by some families and follows the French pattern. Corin and Corrin are said identically.
Nicknames for Corin
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
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 198169 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1581reached in 1978
- Change vs 2019
- 0.0%7 in 2025, 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.
Corin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corin in French — same name
- Quirinus in Latin — related form
Corins among us
people named Corin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Corin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Corin
- #11932
- Corin on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Corin went to 7 girls in 2025, but Koryn, Corryn and Coryn and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 9 spellings went to 60, which makes it the 900th most-given girls’ name of the year — 11,032 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Corin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cindra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Corin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cindra climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cindra's path sketches the road Corin is walking now.
Corin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Corin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Corin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Roman origin and a documented literary one, both checkable.
- It serves either child, and the records show both.
- Two syllables with nothing in the spelling to explain.
- It leans to boys without settling, so a form will guess and will often be wrong.
- Corinne, Corin and Coren are all in use and the first is much commoner and reads as feminine.
- The stress is genuinely unsettled between the two syllables.
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Frequently asked
- How many Corins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Corin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Corin?
- Corin is one of 8 recorded spellings. Koryn is the more common one — 13 births in 2025 against 7 for Corin.
- How popular is the name Corin in 2025?
- Corin ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Corin?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Corin — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Corin with classmates?
- Corin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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