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Coramae vs Corbin

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 59 Coramaes. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Coramae 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

Corbin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1916, when Coramae had 10 and Corbin had 16.

Side by side

  Coramae Corbin
Total US births 5941,777
Most in one year 101,943
Babies in 2025 under 5595
Estimated living today 3041,000
Median age today 516
Peak year 19162014
Best rank 2,833rd girls203rd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked512th
First recorded 19161891
Girls / boys 59 / 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 Coramaes are over 5. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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