Corri
Feminine
Corri is given to both — 703 girls and 27 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Corri is a short form in a spelling that gives no clue which longer name it belongs to, and the record holds it for sons as well as daughters. The Greek city the likeliest candidates point back to had a reputation in English that had nothing to do with architecture.
How old is the name Corri?
Corri first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Corri alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 700 people named Corri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corri most popular?
Corri peaked in 1976, reaching #2602 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Corri
For most of the nineteenth century, calling an Englishman a Corinthian did not mean he liked columns. The city had a reputation in antiquity for wealth and loose living, and the adjective carried that into English as a term for a rich young man devoted to sport, drinking and general dissipation — the Regency version of a playboy, boxing and driving four-in-hand for amusement. The word turns up throughout the sporting press of the period. When amateur football and yacht clubs began forming later in the century, several took the name deliberately, meaning gentlemen who played for the love of it rather than for money, and that sense survives in the phrase the Corinthian spirit. One word for a city produced a byword for luxury, a term for a rake, an architectural order and a synonym for sportsmanship, and they all coexisted.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Corinne, Cora and Cordelia all yield this short form and have different origins — one Greek by way of French, one Greek directly, one Welsh or invented. Registered alone, the short form points back to none of them, and the sound is also a Scottish surname.
Pronouncing Corri
KOR-ee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The doubled r keeps the first vowel short, which is what separates this from a reading with a long o.
Nicknames for Corri
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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 198935 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2602reached in 1976
- Change vs 2021
- −16.7%5 in 2023, from 6
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.
Corris among us
people named Corri 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
Corri 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 short, warm and readable at first sight by anybody.
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- Every letter does what English expects.
- Corrie, Cori and Corey are all commoner and will be written for it.
- It reads as a nickname, and people will ask what it stands for.
- Which longer name it belongs to is not recorded, so the answer has to be a family one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Corris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Corri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Corri in 2025?
- Corri is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Corri with classmates?
- Corri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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