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Corinne vs Corynn

American parents have registered 49,892 Corinnes since 1880, against 778 Corynns. Corinne is still ahead, with 253 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corinne Corynn

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 2006, when Corinne had 326 and Corynn had 42.

Side by side

  Corinne Corynn
Total US births 49,892778
Most in one year 84742
Babies in 2025 2536
Estimated living today 34,000770
Median age today 4222
Peak year 19782006
Best rank 272nd girls3,669th girls
Rank in 2025 999th13,208th
First recorded 18801975
Girls / boys 49,877 / 15778 / 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 Corinnes alive today are over 42; half the Corynns are over 22. That is 20 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.

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