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Corbin vs Corvin

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 808 Corvins. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corbin Corvin

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 1927, when Corbin had 10 and Corvin had 5.

Side by side

  Corbin Corvin
Total US births 41,777808
Most in one year 1,94353
Babies in 2025 59524
Estimated living today 41,000780
Median age today 1613
Peak year 20142009
Best rank 203rd boys2,401st boys
Rank in 2025 512th4,249th
First recorded 18911926
Girls / boys 665 / 41,1120 / 808

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 Corvins are over 13. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Corbin Corvin
England and Wales 4434

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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