Corinne
Corinne is a girl's name that peaked in 1978, when it was the 272nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 999th. About 34,000 Corinnes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Corinne boys named Corinne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 49,892
- Estimated living today
- 34,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1978
- Best rank
- 272nd
- Rank in 2025
- 999th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 49,877 / 15
How old the living Corinnes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 49,892 babies given the name since 1880, about 34,000 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 5,700 of them are children and 7,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
From the French equivalent of Corinna, from Ancient Greek κόρη (“girl, maiden, daughter”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Corinnes
- Corinne Griffith (1894–1979)American actress, film producer, author
- Corinne Cléry (born 1950)French actress
- Corinne Hermès (born 1961)French singer
- Corinne Bailey Rae (born 1979)British singer
- Corinne Suter (born 1994)Swiss alpine skier
- Corinne Niogret (born 1972)French biathlete
- Corinne Diacre (born 1974)French football player and manager
- Corinne Maier (born 1963)French writer
People named Corinne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Corinne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Corinne is most concentrated in Massachusetts (2.3×), Hawaii (2.0×), Connecticut (2.0×), New Jersey (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1978
The most popular girls’ names the year Corinne peaked:
Corinne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Corinne | 162,795 | 6th |
| Italy girls | Corinne | 1,146 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Corinne | 419 | 519th |
| Scotland girls | Corinne | 287 | 224th |
| Switzerland girls | Corinne | 265 | 153rd |
| Ireland girls | Corinne | 66 | 365th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Corinne | 3 | 358th |
| Poland girls | Corinne | 2 birth registrations | 734th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Corinne: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Corinne | 244 | 0.020% | 109th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Corinne | 12 | 0.003% | 445th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Corinne | 9 | 0.014% | 115th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Corinne is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 39 of them.
Corinne: rank by region
In 2023, Corinne was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Corinne | 8 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Corinne among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Corinne | 1,057 | 2,226 |
| Finland girls | Corinne | 64 | 98 |
| the Netherlands boys | Corinne | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Corinne lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 276 women called Corinne were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Corinne | 22 | 0.035 | 1,661 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Corinne | 36 | 0.035 | 1,701 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Corinne | 9 | 0.029 | 1,762 |
| Palmas, Las | Corinne | 15 | 0.025 | 2,797 |
| Granada | Corinne | 12 | 0.025 | 1,592 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Corinne | 13 | 0.023 | 2,726 |
Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Corinne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.