How rare is the name Corinna?

6,315 people in the United States have the first name Corinna, about 1 in 47,828. It ranks #3,361 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CORINNA

#3,361

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,315
About
1 in 47,828
This common or more
82.2%
Who bears it

Of the 6,315 people named Corinna, 66.9% reported their origin as White, 19.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Corinna peaked in 1970, when 225 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18812025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
225
In 2025*
34 ▼85%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,110 babies have been given the name since 1881. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Corinna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,444. The largest share of babies named Corinna, 37.3%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#2,74510
1890s#2,86521
1900s#3,95714
1910s#4,18298
1920s#5,59992
1930s#5,37478
1940s#5,31291
1950s#4,938136
1960s#1,4621,459
1970s#1,4441,694
1980s#2,0141,155
1990s#2,5001,121
2000s#5,041552
2010s#6,870373
2020s#7,023216
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–272.7%
Silent Generation 1928–452%
Baby boom 1946–6411%
Generation X 1965–8037.3%
Millennials 1981–9627.1%
Generation Z 1997–1212.5%
2013 and later6.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Corinna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Corinna has been most common in California (3.4×), Washington (2.4×), and Oregon (2.3×), and least common in Virginia (0.48×).

3,623 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Corinna

1 other first name also has 6,315 people.

#3,361 Sincere · 6,315

Either side of Corinna

#3,359 Florencio · 6,318#3,359 Karolina · 6,318#3,361 Sincere · 6,315#3,363 Ekaterina · 6,313

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Corinna, most common first.

#1,147 Corinne · 34,767#1,820 Corina · 16,147#3,920 Corrina · 4,984#4,118 Corine · 4,671#6,431 Corin · 2,495#10,355 Corrinne · 1,294#13,417 Corena · 901#16,034 Corynn · 709

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