Girls' name · peaked in 1926

Corrine name popularity since 1925

17,384 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Corrine. Half of them were born in 1961 or earlier, so the typical Corrine is about 65 years old in 2026. Corrine peaked in 1926 as the #352 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

Key facts

US babies since 1925
17,384
Named Corrine, 1925–2025
Peak year
1926
#352 for girls that year
Typical age
About 65
Median birth year 1961
In 2025
Not top 1,000
#3,845 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys
100.0% girls
17,384 girls · 0 boys
Most popular in
Minnesota
3.72× its national share

Peak year is the year Corrine made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Corrine births per year, 1925–2025

Babies named Corrine per year, 1925–2025

1926 was the biggest year for Corrine both by count and as a share of all babies.

  • Steepest fall: Between 1936 and 1941, Corrine's share of baby girls fell by 44%, from 1 in 3,760 to 1 in 6,710.
  • Fastest rise: Between 1973 and 1978, it became 2.5× more common, from 1 in 13,500 baby girls to 1 in 5,410.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Corrine's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Corrine.

Decade by decade

Babies named Corrine in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade Girls Rank
1925–29 1,649 –
1930s 2,661 #402
1940s 1,941 #538
1950s 2,189 #646
1960s 1,956 #746
1970s 1,614 #974
1980s 1,788 #959
1990s 1,695 #1,080
2000s 1,005 #2,299
2010s 678 #2,939
2020–25 208 #3,845

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

25.8% of babies named Corrine from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Corrine by generation Greatest Generation born 1925–27 5.7% Silent Generation born 1928–45 25.8% Baby Boomers born 1946–64 23.5% Gen X born 1965–80 15.2% Millennials born 1981–96 16.6% Gen Z born 1997–2012 9.4% Gen Alpha born 2013–25 3.7%

Where Corrine is most popular

The index compares Corrine's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Corrine.

StateIndexBabies
Minnesota3.72×853
Wisconsin2.86×709
Pennsylvania1.66×1,061
Illinois1.56×955
Michigan1.49×716

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Corrine and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

SpellingGirlsPeak year
Corrine (this page) 17,384 1926
Corinne 42,251 1926
Corine 8,779 1910
Corrinne 1,702 1898

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Corrine's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Corrine.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Corrine (1926).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data