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Coreen

Girls' name

Variant of Corinne

Coreen has been given to 2,475 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Coreen, 2005

1 in 769,000

Coreen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Coreen: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Corinne

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Coreen means

Coreen is a variant of Corinne.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Coreen is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /kə.ˈɹin/ for Coreen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Coreen → Corinne. The family’s meaning is “girl, maiden, daughter”, recorded in English with the source elements kórē.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Corinne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,475 girls were recorded with the name Coreen between 1900 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 75 in 1968; its best national rank was #1,270 in 1968.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Coreen?

Coreen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Coreen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coreen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Coreens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Coreen was born before 1965 — so the typical Coreen is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,952
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (657).

Is Coreen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1968 (75)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,270
1968

Spellings of Coreen

Coreen is not the most common spelling — Colleen is, with 34.6% against Coreen's 0.53%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Coreen is used

Across 1910–2025, Coreen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 117,682 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  6. 6Iowa1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Coreen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Coreen around the world

Where Coreen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    1975–1987
    #582
    in 1987
  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Coreen

People whose public names include Coreen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Coreen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,270
1968
Peak year
1968
75 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
2,475
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Coreen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Coreen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Coreen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Coreen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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