Corrie

Where Corrie comes from

From Scottish Gaelic coire (“cauldron, boiler; corrie”), which denotes a bowl-shaped geographical feature similar to a cirque.
— Wiktionary's entry for Corrie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #435
    19 babies named Corrie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1915
    Corrie Laddé born
    Dutch swimmer
  4. 1966
    Corrie Sanders born
    South African boxer
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Cora and Corinne, or borrowed from the Dutch pet form of Cornelia.
Namesakes
  • Corrie Sanders · South African boxer, 1966–2012
  • Corrie Laddé · Dutch swimmer, 1915–1996
  • Corrie Winkel · Dutch swimmer, born 1944
  • Corrie de Bruin · Dutch discus thrower and shot putter, born 1976
  • Corrie Bakker · Dutch sprinter, long jumper and pentathlete, born 1945

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.