Humanverse

Korey vs Korinne

American parents have registered 12,863 Koreys since 1880, against 1,328 Korinnes. Korey is still ahead, with 54 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Korey 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 73 years in which either name was published, Korey for 72 years and Korinne for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Korey Korinne
Total US births 12,8631,328
Most in one year 55144
Babies in 2025 5413
Estimated living today 12,0001,300
Median age today 3330
Peak year 19901978
Best rank 438th boys2,125th girls
Rank in 2025 2,718th7,885th
First recorded 19531953
Girls / boys 1,420 / 11,4431,328 / 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 Koreys alive today are over 33; half the Korinnes are over 30. 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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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