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Corinne vs Corrinne

American parents have registered 49,892 Corinnes since 1880, against 2,107 Corrinnes. Corinne is still ahead, with 253 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corinne Corrinne

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 1891, when Corinne had 76 and Corrinne had 8.

Side by side

  Corinne Corrinne
Total US births 49,8922,107
Most in one year 84747
Babies in 2025 253under 5
Estimated living today 34,0001,200
Median age today 4245
Peak year 19781924
Best rank 272nd girls1,138th girls
Rank in 2025 999thunranked
First recorded 18801888
Girls / boys 49,877 / 152,107 / 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 Corrinnes alive today are over 45; half the Corinnes are over 42. 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 Corinne Corrinne
France 162,79535
England and Wales 41910
Scotland 2876

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.

Compare something else

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