Koreen
Feminine
Koreen may respell a French name or join a free front to the ending American naming used heavily in the middle of the last century, and nothing records which. The Greek city behind the French name solved a geographical problem in a way that sounds impossible and was not.
How old is the name Koreen?
Koreen first appears in US birth records in 1941 — 84 years ago. The typical Koreen alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 600 people named Koreen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Koreen most popular?
Koreen peaked in 1960, reaching #2369 nationally. See the whole 1960 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Koreen
For something like seven hundred years, ships were dragged across the Isthmus of Corinth on a paved road. The Diolkos was a limestone trackway with grooves cut for wheeled cradles, running the few miles between the gulfs, and it let vessels avoid the long and dangerous voyage round the Peloponnese. Sections of it survive and have been excavated. Warships certainly used it, and the question of how large a merchant ship could be portaged this way is still argued. Attempts to dig an actual canal were made by a tyrant of Corinth, by Julius Caesar, by Caligula and by Nero, who began one with Jewish prisoners and abandoned it; the modern canal was not finished until the nineteenth century, on close to the line Nero had marked.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The French name it may respell is built on the Greek for a girl and is also the name of a poet. The -een ending is a free American element. Nothing in the record separates the two readings.
Pronouncing Koreen
kuh-REEN
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The French name it may respell is said the same way, so the change is visible and nothing else.
Nicknames for Koreen
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
- 1941
- Most girls named
- 196928 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2369reached in 1960
- Change vs 1999
- 0.0%5 in 2006, 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.
Koreens among us
people named Koreen 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
Koreen 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
- Back stress gives a two-syllable name a firm landing.
- Both halves detach as short forms and neither sounds like the other.
- Six letters with no silent ones make it quick to write.
- Corinne, Corene and Korene will all be written for it.
- The k marks it as a respelling, which readers notice at once.
- Nothing records which of the two readings applies.
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Frequently asked
- How many Koreens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Koreen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Koreen in 2025?
- Koreen is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Koreen with classmates?
- Koreen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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