Korina
Feminine · “Greek "maiden”
Korina writes the Greek poet's name with the letter Greek actually used. Korinna is spelled with a kappa, and Latin turned every kappa into a C, which is why English has Corinna, Cyrus and Cynthia rather than Korinna, Kyros and Kynthia. The K spelling is closer to the source, whatever it looks like.
How old is the name Korina?
Korina first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Korina alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 2,500 people named Korina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Korina most popular?
Korina peaked in 1995, reaching #1482 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 5,651 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
From korē to Korina
The story of Korina
Korinna of Tanagra was a Greek lyric poet whose dates are genuinely disputed — fifth century or third — and about whom a tradition grew up that she defeated Pindar in competition. Ovid then used Corinna as the name of the beloved in the Amores, which carried the Latin spelling into European literature. German and the Slavic languages, which transliterate Greek directly rather than through Latin, use Korinna and Korina. The American 1995 peak reflects both that continental spelling and the general 1990s preference for K over C.
Meaning
Greek "maiden", a diminutive of kore
From korē, a girl or maiden, with a diminutive ending. Korē is also a title of Persephone and the term for the archaic Greek statues of standing young women. The etymology is settled. The K is the original letter; the C is Latin's substitution, which English inherited without thinking about it.
How the name formed
- korē
- ΚόρινναKorinna
- Korina
Related forms: Κόριννα · Korinna · Corinna · Corina
Pronouncing Korina
kuh-REE-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Greek stresses the first syllable, KO-rin-na, which is not how the name has been said in English for centuries. The K and C spellings are identical aloud.
Nicknames for Korina
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
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 1995107 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1482reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- −40.0%15 in 2025, from 25
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.
Korina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κόριννα in Greek — same name
- Korinna in German — same name
- Corinna in Latin — same name
- Corina in Romanian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Korinas among us
people named Korina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Korina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Korina
- #7133
- Korina on the 2025 chart
- #852
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Korina went to 15 girls in 2025, but Corina, Corinna and Corrina 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 Korina 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 Sunni test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Korina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sunni climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sunni's path sketches the road Korina is walking now.
Korina 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
Korina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Korina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The K spelling is closer to the Greek original than the standard C.
- It has a real historical poet behind it rather than a mythological figure.
- Kora and Kori are both established short forms.
- Corinna and Corina are the more familiar English spellings.
- It will be assumed to be a K-respelling rather than a continental one.
- Korina, Corina, Korinna and Corinna all coexist.
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Frequently asked
- How many Korinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Korina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Korina?
- Korina is one of 5 recorded spellings. Corina is the more common one — 37 births in 2025 against 15 for Korina.
- How popular is the name Korina in 2025?
- Korina ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Korina?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Korina — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Korina with classmates?
- Korina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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