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Coree vs Corinne

American parents have registered 49,892 Corinnes since 1880, against 561 Corees. Corinne is still ahead, with 253 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Coree against Corinne, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Coree Corinne

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

Corinne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Coree had 27 and Corinne had 508.

Side by side

  Coree Corinne
Total US births 56149,892
Most in one year 32847
Babies in 2025 under 5253
Estimated living today 53034,000
Median age today 3442
Peak year 19841978
Best rank 4,166th girls272nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked999th
First recorded 19141880
Girls / boys 395 / 16649,877 / 15

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 Corinnes alive today are over 42; half the Corees are over 34. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Coree Corinne
England and Wales 34419

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: Coree and Corinne.