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Coralyn vs Corbin

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 1,119 Coralyns. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Coralyn 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 117 years in which either name was published, Corbin for 112 years and Coralyn for 5 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Coralyn Corbin
Total US births 1,11941,777
Most in one year 551,943
Babies in 2025 14595
Estimated living today 95041,000
Median age today 1216
Peak year 20132014
Best rank 3,005th girls203rd boys
Rank in 2025 7,491st512th
First recorded 19161891
Girls / boys 1,119 / 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 Corbins alive today are over 16; half the Coralyns are over 12. That is 4 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: Coralyn and Corbin.