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Coralee vs Corbin

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 2,638 Coralees. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Coralee against Corbin, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Coralee Corbin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 125 years in which either name was published, Corbin for 77 years and Coralee for 48 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Coralee Corbin
Total US births 2,63841,777
Most in one year 791,943
Babies in 2025 29595
Estimated living today 1,90041,000
Median age today 2116
Peak year 20172014
Best rank 2,320th girls203rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,661st512th
First recorded 18951891
Girls / boys 2,638 / 0665 / 41,112

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Coralees alive today are over 21; half the Corbins are over 16. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Coralee and Corbin.