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Corinna

#4,193 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly girl, maid, daughter

Corinna has been given to 7,110 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #4,193 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 225 recorded.

Babies named Corinna, 2025

1 in 97,500

Corinna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Corinna: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly girl, maid, daughter

Ancient Greek

What Corinna means

Corinna may mean “girl, maid, daughter”, associated with kórē.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ancient Greek, probably from κόρη (kórē, “girl, maid, daughter”); compare kore.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Corinna (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Corinna is used in English, German and Latin. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Corinna is pronounced [kɔˈrɪn.na].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,110 girls were recorded with the name Corinna between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 225 in 1970; its best national rank was #698 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,942 in 2020 to #4,193 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,009 in 2015 to #4,193 in 2025.

How common is Corinna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,193
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Corinna 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 2025 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Corinna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Corinnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Corinna was born before 1978 — so the typical Corinna is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,706
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (1,694).

Is Corinna 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
−212
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−251
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−184
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.1%
Peak was 1970 (225)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#698
1970

Spellings of Corinna

Corinna is not the most common spelling — Corinne is, with 34.8% against Corinna's 5.0%.

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 Corinna is used

Across 1910–2025, Corinna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 34,988 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 16,667
  3. 3Oregon1 in 16,667
  4. 4Washington1 in 16,667
  5. 5Arizona1 in 33,333
  6. 6Maine1 in 33,333
  7. 7Michigan1 in 33,333
  8. 8New York1 in 33,333

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. Corinna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Corinna around the world

Where Corinna 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • Scotland
    1974–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • Ireland
    1966–1987
    #446
    in 1987
  • France
    1958–2006
    #5,925
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Corinna

People whose public names include Corinna, 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.

Corinna in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Corinna. Linked forms have their own page here.

CorinaCorineKorynaCorinneCorrinaKorinna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Corinna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,193
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 251
Best rank ever
#698
1970
Peak year
1970
225 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,110
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Corinna

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

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Names with a curve like Corinna

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

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Sibling names for Corinna

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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