Corrine
Feminine · “maiden”
Corrine descends from Greek kore, a maiden — the same word that names Persephone in her aspect as the girl, before the underworld.
How old is the name Corrine?
Corrine was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Corrine alive today was born around 1954, making them about 71 years old. About 12,500 people named Corrine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corrine most popular?
Corrine peaked in 1926, reaching #352 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 3,480 places below that high. See the whole 1926 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kore to Corrine
The story of Corrine
Korinna was a poet of Boeotia, called a rival of Pindar in one ancient tradition, of whom fragments survive. The word kore itself is one of the central terms of Greek religion and art. French took the name as Corinne and an 1807 novel by Madame de Staël made it fashionable across Europe. American use peaked in the 1920s, and Corrine with the doubled r belongs to that period.
Meaning
maiden
From Greek kore, a girl or maiden, with a diminutive ending; Korinna was borne by a Greek lyric poet of Boeotia, and French produced Corinne. The word kore also names the standing maiden statues of archaic Greek sculpture.
How the name formed
- kore
- Korinna
- Corinne
- Corrine
Related forms: Corinne · Korinna · Corinna
Pronouncing Corrine
kuh-REEN
Two syllables with the stress on the second. Some families say KOR-in.
Nicknames for Corrine
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1927350 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #352reached in 1926
- Change vs 2022
- +31.0%38 in 2025, from 29
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.
Corrine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corinne in French — spelling variant
- Korinna in Greek — same name
- Corinna in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Ohio, Texas.
Corrines among us
people named Corrine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Corrine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Corrine
- #3832
- Corrine on the 2025 chart
- #667
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Corrine went to 38 girls in 2025, but Corinne and Korinne are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 304, which makes it the 667th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,165 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 5,287 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 42,297 for Corrine 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 Lauretta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Corrine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lauretta climbed just as high around 1904, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lauretta's path sketches the road Corrine is walking now.
Corrine 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
Where Corrine is headed
Corrine should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Corrine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Corrine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Greek meaning with a genuinely deep record in art and religion.
- Cori and Rina are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Corinne is the standard spelling and will be offered as a correction.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- It is strongly associated with one mid-century American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Corrines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,500 people named Corrine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Corrine?
- Corrine is one of 3 recorded spellings. Corinne is the more common one — 253 births in 2025 against 38 for Corrine.
- How popular is the name Corrine in 2025?
- Corrine ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Corrine?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Corrine — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Corrine with classmates?
- Corrine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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