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Corgan vs Corinne

American parents have registered 49,892 Corinnes since 1880, against 131 Corgans. Corinne is still ahead, with 253 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corgan 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 2007, when Corgan had 15 and Corinne had 433.

Side by side

  Corgan Corinne
Total US births 13149,892
Most in one year 15847
Babies in 2025 under 5253
Estimated living today 13034,000
Median age today 2142
Peak year 20071978
Best rank 5,661st boys272nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked999th
First recorded 19971880
Girls / boys 0 / 13149,877 / 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 Corgans are over 21. That is 21 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: Corgan and Corinne.