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Kori vs Korrine

American parents have registered 16,387 Koris since 1880, against 561 Korrines. Kori is still ahead, with 287 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kori Korrine

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

Kori has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1953 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1958, when Kori had 23 and Korrine had 8.

Side by side

  Kori Korrine
Total US births 16,387561
Most in one year 50327
Babies in 2025 287under 5
Estimated living today 16,000540
Median age today 2531
Peak year 20161993
Best rank 631st girls3,877th girls
Rank in 2025 978thunranked
First recorded 19531958
Girls / boys 14,822 / 1,565561 / 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 Korrines alive today are over 31; half the Koris are over 25. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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