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Corbin vs Corinthia

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 1,133 Corinthias. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corbin Corinthia

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 119 years in which either name was published, Corbin for 115 years and Corinthia for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Corbin Corinthia
Total US births 41,7771,133
Most in one year 1,94335
Babies in 2025 595under 5
Estimated living today 41,0001,000
Median age today 1639
Peak year 20141992
Best rank 203rd boys3,218th girls
Rank in 2025 512thunranked
First recorded 18911905
Girls / boys 665 / 41,1121,133 / 0

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 Corinthias alive today are over 39; half the Corbins are over 16. That is 23 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: Corbin and Corinthia.