Korrie
Feminine · “maiden”
Korrie is given to both — 798 girls and 30 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Korrie is the same sound as Corey and almost never the same child. Through the second half of the twentieth century the C-and-y spellings of this name went to boys and the K-and-ie spellings went to girls, and neither convention was ever written down anywhere. It happened by consensus, which is how most of English naming works.
How old is the name Korrie?
Korrie first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Korrie alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 800 people named Korrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Korrie most popular?
Korrie peaked in 1976, reaching #2602 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 12,340 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Corey to Korrie
The story of Korrie
What happened to Corey in American naming is a good example of a rule nobody made. A surname turns into a boy's first name; it becomes common; families who like the sound but want it for a daughter reach for a spelling that signals the difference; and within a generation the K and the -ie have become the women's version without any authority declaring it. The same thing happened to Jamie and Jaimie, to Terry and Terri, to Bobby and Bobbie. The convention has weakened since, and it never bound anyone, but it is why this spelling reads as it does.
Meaningscholars disagree
maiden
Three candidates and no winner. Greek kore means a maiden or a girl, and it is the title given to Persephone in the mysteries; the resemblance is real and the descent is not demonstrated. An Old Norse personal name and an Irish family name are the other two, and both are better attested as sources of the English surname Corey. A name this short and this widely respelled accumulates possible origins rather than narrowing them.
How the name formed
- Corey
- Korrie
Related forms: Κόρη
Pronouncing Korrie
KOR-ee
KOR-ee, two syllables, stress at the front. The doubled r does not lengthen anything; in English a doubled consonant after a stressed vowel is a spelling convention rather than a sound, and here it keeps the o short and does nothing else.
Nicknames for Korrie
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
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 198932 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2602reached in 1976
- Change vs 2024
- −37.5%5 in 2025, from 8
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.
Korrie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κόρη in Greek — transliteration
Korries among us
people named Korrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Korrie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Korrie
- #14942
- Korrie on the 2025 chart
- #865
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Korrie went to 5 girls in 2025, but Korie, Corrie and Corie are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 95, which makes it the 865th most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,077 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 16,919 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Korrie 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 Caralyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Korrie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Caralyn climbed just as high around 1945, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Caralyn's path sketches the road Korrie is walking now.
Korrie 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
Korrie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Korrie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The sound is universally familiar and needs no introduction anywhere.
- It is spelled the way the convention of its period says a girl's version should be, which reads clearly to anyone who knows the convention.
- Two syllables and a firm first stress, which carries almost any surname.
- Corey is the default spelling and this one will be rewritten as that on most documents.
- The spelling convention that made this a girl's version has faded, so it no longer signals what it once did.
- It is recorded for boys as well, so on a form it settles nothing and will be guessed both ways.
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Frequently asked
- How many Korries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Korrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Korrie?
- Korrie is one of 4 recorded spellings. Korie is the more common one — 35 births in 2025 against 5 for Korrie.
- How popular is the name Korrie in 2025?
- Korrie ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Korrie?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Korrie — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Korrie with classmates?
- Korrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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