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Koraline vs Korbin

American parents have registered 9,517 Korbins since 1880, against 526 Koralines. Korbin is still ahead, with 186 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Koraline against Korbin, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Koraline Korbin

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

Korbin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Koraline had 47 and Korbin had 186.

Side by side

  Koraline Korbin
Total US births 5269,517
Most in one year 48550
Babies in 2025 47186
Estimated living today 5209,400
Median age today 612
Peak year 20182014
Best rank 3,293rd girls511th boys
Rank in 2025 3,296th1,169th
First recorded 20101976
Girls / boys 526 / 0183 / 9,334

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 Korbins alive today are over 12; half the Koralines are over 6. That is 6 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: Koraline and Korbin.