Corrina
Feminine · “Greek "maiden”
Corrina goes back to a Greek poet. Korinna of Tanagra wrote in the fifth or third century BC — the dating is genuinely disputed — and a tradition, probably invented later, has her defeating Pindar in competition five times. Her name is one of the few classical women's names that comes from a writer rather than from a myth.
How old is the name Corrina?
Corrina first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Corrina alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 5,600 people named Corrina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corrina most popular?
Corrina peaked in 1974, reaching #928 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 6,205 places below that high. See the whole 1974 chart.
Where it comes from
From korē to Corrina
The story of Corrina
Ovid used Corinna as the name of the beloved in the Amores, which carried it into European love poetry — Herrick's Corinna's Going a-Maying is the best-known English instance. That kept it alive as a literary name for centuries without it ever becoming common. Its twentieth-century American use has a different source: the folk and blues song Corrina, Corrina, recorded repeatedly from 1928 onward and a hit several times over, which put the doubled-r spelling into wide circulation. The 1974 peak follows that line rather than the Greek one.
Meaning
Greek "maiden", a diminutive of kore
From Greek korē, a girl or maiden, with the diminutive suffix -inna. Korē is also a title of Persephone and the term for the standing female statues of archaic Greece. The etymology is settled. The Latin spelling Corinna, with one r, is the standard one; the doubled r is an English and American variant that does not reflect the Greek.
How the name formed
- korē
- ΚόρινναKorinna
- Corinna
- Corrina
Related forms: Κόριννα · Corinna · Korinna · Corinna
Pronouncing Corrina
kuh-REE-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The doubled r has no effect in English. Greek would stress the first syllable, KO-rin-na, which is not how the name has been said in English for centuries.
Nicknames for Corrina
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
- 1916
- Most girls named
- 1996160 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #928reached in 1974
- Change vs 2023
- −25.0%15 in 2025, from 20
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.
Corrina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κόριννα in Greek — same name
- Corinna in Latin — same name
- Korinna in German — same name
- Corinna in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Pennsylvania, New York.
Corrinas among us
people named Corrina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Corrina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Corrina
- #7133
- Corrina on the 2025 chart
- #852
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Corrina went to 15 girls in 2025, but Corina, Corinna and Korina and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 108, which makes it the 852nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,281 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 14,882 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Corrina 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 Gaylene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Corrina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gaylene climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gaylene's path sketches the road Corrina is walking now.
Corrina 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
Corrina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Corrina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a real historical poet behind it, not a mythological figure.
- Cora and Cori are both established short forms with their own histories.
- The rhythm matches Katrina and Sabrina, so it is instantly sayable.
- Corinna with one r is the historically correct spelling.
- Corina, Corinna, Korinna and Corrina all coexist.
- The 1970s peak dates the doubled-r spelling specifically.
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Frequently asked
- How many Corrinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,600 people named Corrina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Corrina?
- Corrina is one of 5 recorded spellings. Corina is the more common one — 37 births in 2025 against 15 for Corrina.
- How popular is the name Corrina in 2025?
- Corrina ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Corrina?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Corrina — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Corrina with classmates?
- Corrina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Corrina
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