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Kora vs Korinne

American parents have registered 9,541 Koras since 1880, against 1,328 Korinnes. Kora is still ahead, with 603 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kora against Korinne, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kora Korinne

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

Of the 71 years in which either name was published, Kora for 37 years and Korinne for 34 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Kora Korinne
Total US births 9,5411,328
Most in one year 68244
Babies in 2025 60313
Estimated living today 9,5001,300
Median age today 730
Peak year 20221978
Best rank 465th girls2,125th girls
Rank in 2025 490th7,885th
First recorded 19421953
Girls / boys 9,541 / 01,328 / 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 Korinnes alive today are over 30; half the Koras are over 7. That is 23 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: Kora and Korinne.