Corrie
Corrie reached its high-water mark in 1977 at number 540, and has been recorded 9,851 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,265th. About 7,600 Corries are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Corrie boys named Corrie
Girls and boys called Corrie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 8,567 girls and 1,284 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 33 to 5.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 114 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,851
- Estimated living today
- 7,600
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 540th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,265th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 8,567 / 1,284
How old the living Corries are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,851 babies given the name since 1880, about 7,600 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 680 of them are children and 470 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 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 a surname
From Scottish Gaelic coire (“cauldron, boiler; corrie”), which denotes a bowl-shaped geographical feature similar to a cirque.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Corries
- Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983)Dutch resistance hero and writer
- Corrie Sanders (1966–2012)South African boxer
- Corrie Laddé (1915–1996)Dutch swimmer
- Corrie Winkel (born 1944)Dutch swimmer
People named Corrie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Corrie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Corrie is most concentrated in South Carolina (7.4×), Oregon (1.8×), Washington (1.6×), Georgia (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular girls’ names the year Corrie peaked:
Corrie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland girls | Corrie | 189 | 235th |
| Scotland boys | Corrie | 176 | 197th |
| England and Wales boys | Corrie | 115 | 718th |
| England and Wales girls | Corrie | 114 | 789th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Corrie | 19 | 190th |
| Ireland boys | Corrie | 11 | 295th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Corrie | 10 | 221st |
| France girls | Corrie | 5 | 4,135th |
| Ireland girls | Corrie | 3 | 528th |
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.
Related names
Corrie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.