Corrine

Where Corrine comes from

The dictionaries list Corrine as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek. Variant of Corinne — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1926
    Peak, #352
    358 babies named Corrine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1946
    Corrine Brown born
    American politician
  4. 1951
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #658.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek. Variant of Corinne.
Namesakes
  • Corrine Brown · American politician, born 1946
  • Corrine Koslo · Canadian actress

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.