Korinne
Feminine · “Greek "maiden”
Corinna was a poet who is said to have beaten Pindar five times. She was Boeotian, wrote in the local dialect on local myths, and the ancient sources report her defeating the greatest lyric poet of Greece in competition — Pindar allegedly called her a sow in response.
How old is the name Korinne?
Korinne first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Korinne alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 1,300 people named Korinne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Korinne most popular?
Korinne peaked in 1978, reaching #2125 nationally. Today it ranks #7885, 5,760 places below that high. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
From korē to Korinne
The story of Korinne
Corinna's dates are disputed — ancient sources place her as a contemporary of Pindar in the fifth century BC, while some modern scholars argue the surviving papyrus fragments point to a much later composition. What survives is a body of poetry on Boeotian subjects, written in the Boeotian dialect rather than the literary Doric of choral lyric, which is itself unusual and suggests a local audience. The story of the five victories over Pindar comes from Pausanias and later writers, along with the tradition that she advised him to sow with the hand and not with the whole sack. The name entered English use through Ovid, whose Amores address a Corinna. Korinne peaks in 1978.
Meaning
Greek "maiden", as a diminutive
From korē, a girl or maiden, with a diminutive ending — so a little maiden. Korē was also the cult title of Persephone, used to avoid naming the queen of the underworld directly. Corinne is the French form and Korinne an American respelling with K. The name is unrelated to the city of Corinth.
How the name formed
- korē
- Korinna
- Corinne
- Korinne
Related forms: Corinne · Κόριννα · Korinna
Pronouncing Korinne
kuh-RIN
Two syllables, stress on the second, following the French Corinne. The Greek Korinna is three syllables with the stress on the first, KOR-in-nah.
Nicknames for Korinne
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
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 199139 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2125reached in 1978
- Change vs 2024
- −23.5%13 in 2025, from 17
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.
Korinne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corinne in French — spelling variant
- Κόριννα in Greek — related form
- Korinna in German — same name
Korinnes among us
people named Korinne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 123,636 born in 2025 was named Korinne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Korinne
- #7885
- Korinne on the 2025 chart
- #667
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Korinne went to 13 girls in 2025, but Corinne and Corrine 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 — 7,218 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 5,287 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 123,636 for Korinne 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 Lavella test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Korinne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lavella climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lavella's path sketches the road Korinne is walking now.
Korinne 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
Korinne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Korinne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and the literary history is genuine.
- Kori is an immediate short form and a name of its own.
- The K spelling connects it to the Greek and German forms.
- Corinne is the standard spelling and will be substituted.
- It is easily confused with Corina and Karen in speech.
- The final e is silent and often dropped.
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Frequently asked
- How many Korinnes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Korinne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Korinne?
- Korinne is one of 3 recorded spellings. Corinne is the more common one — 253 births in 2025 against 13 for Korinne.
- How popular is the name Korinne in 2025?
- Korinne ranks #7885 among US girl names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Korinne?
- About 1 in every 123,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Korinne — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Korinne with classmates?
- Korinne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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