Coryn
Feminine · “maiden”
Korē is the plainest word Greek had for a young woman, and it is also the name they used for Persephone — because saying her real name, in the cult that grew up around her, was not something you did lightly. Coryn is the shortest modern spelling of the name family built on that word, with no doubled letters anywhere.
How old is the name Coryn?
Coryn first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Coryn alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 900 people named Coryn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Coryn most popular?
Coryn peaked in 1978, reaching #3196 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 10,012 places below that high. See the whole 1978 chart.
Where it comes from
From korē to Coryn
The story of Coryn
Korinna gave Latin and then English the name Corinna; French produced Corinne; American naming produced the rest. What makes this cluster remarkable is how many spellings it supports for one two-syllable sound — Coryn, Corryn, Corynn, Corrin, Corin, Corinne, Korin — each of them a real name in the record with its own small population. They are one name, and treating them as separate is a convention of the filing system rather than a fact about the language. This is the leanest of them, which is its whole argument.
Meaning
maiden
From the Greek korē, a girl or maiden. It was also the standing title of Persephone in the Eleusinian mysteries, where she is the Maiden and her mother is simply the Mother. A word that ordinary carrying a role that large is unusual, and it is the most interesting fact about the whole name family.
How the name formed
- korē
- Korinna
- Corinne
- Coryn
Related forms: Korinna · Corinne · Korinna
Pronouncing Coryn
KOR-in
Two syllables, stress on the first. Because there is no doubled consonant, some readers lengthen the first vowel to KORE-in; both are heard, and the spelling does not settle it.
Nicknames for Coryn
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
- 200645 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3196reached in 1978
- Change vs 2023
- +20.0%6 in 2025, 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.
Coryn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Korinna in Greek — related form
- Corinne in French — related form
- Korinna in German — related form
Coryns among us
people named Coryn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Coryn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Coryn
- #13208
- Coryn on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Coryn went to 6 girls in 2025, but Koryn, Corin and Corryn 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 — 12,308 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 267,878 for Coryn 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 Kathalene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Coryn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kathalene climbed just as high around 1942, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kathalene's path sketches the road Coryn is walking now.
Coryn 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
Coryn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Coryn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is the shortest and cleanest spelling of a sound that usually takes more letters.
- Cory works immediately and suits a child of either sex.
- The Greek word behind it is documented, ordinary and quietly enormous.
- Five letters with nothing an English reader stumbles over.
- Half a dozen spellings compete for this sound, and dictating it is permanent.
- The first vowel is not settled between a short and a long reading.
- Cory reads as a man's name to some Americans, which cuts both ways.
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Frequently asked
- How many Coryns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Coryn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Coryn?
- Coryn is one of 8 recorded spellings. Koryn is the more common one — 13 births in 2025 against 6 for Coryn.
- How popular is the name Coryn in 2025?
- Coryn ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Coryn?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Coryn — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Coryn with classmates?
- Coryn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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