Corrinne
Feminine · “maiden”
This spelling doubles both of its consonants and neither doubling does anything. The standard form already has a doubled n; adding a doubled r as well gives the name two pairs, and since neither pair changes a vowel or a stress, the effect is entirely on the page.
How old is the name Corrinne?
Corrinne first appears in US birth records in 1888 — 137 years ago. The typical Corrinne alive today was born around 1952, making them about 73 years old. About 1,200 people named Corrinne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corrinne most popular?
Corrinne peaked in 1891, reaching #1006 nationally. See the whole 1891 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Korinna to Corrinne
The story of Corrinne
What made the name European was a novel about a woman being crowned as a poet. Published at the start of the nineteenth century by a writer Napoleon had exiled from Paris, it follows a half-Italian half-English improviser who performs verse extempore in public and is garlanded at the Capitol, and who is then destroyed by an Englishman who cannot marry a woman like that. It was read everywhere, argued about everywhere, and it put the name into general use across Europe within a decade. The author had been told her book would be forgotten. It went through edition after edition and the name went with it.
Meaningscholars disagree
maiden
Usually derived from the Greek word for a girl with a diminutive ending, which would make it something like little maiden. The derivation is plausible and widely repeated but not proved, and the name may simply be a poet's own.
How the name formed
- Korinna
- Corinne
- Corrinne
Related forms: Corinne · Corinna · Korinna
Pronouncing Corrinne
kuh-RIN
Two syllables with the weight at the back in French, which is how the name is usually said in English too. The doubled letters change nothing audible at all.
Nicknames for Corrinne
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
- 1888
- Most girls named
- 193046 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1006reached in 1891
- Change vs 2016
- 0.0%5 in 2019, from 5
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.
Corrinne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corinne in French — same name
- Corinna in Italian — same name
- Korinna in Greek — same name
Corrinnes among us
people named Corrinne 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
Corrinne 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
- The stress at the back gives it a decisive and rather elegant finish.
- Cora and Cori sit inside it as short forms with different characters.
- It carries a genuinely literary history rather than a vague one.
- Corinne and Corrine are both commoner and this spelling gets corrected.
- Neither doubling does anything audible, so both are effort spent on paper.
- The generation that used it in America is now elderly.
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- How many Corrinnes 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 Corrinne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Corrinne in 2025?
- Corrinne is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Corrinne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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