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Corbin vs Corina

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 15,925 Corinas. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Corbin against Corina, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Corbin Corina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 130 years in which either name was published, Corina for 86 years and Corbin for 44 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Corbin Corina
Total US births 41,77715,925
Most in one year 1,943399
Babies in 2025 59537
Estimated living today 41,00014,000
Median age today 1641
Peak year 20141992
Best rank 203rd boys583rd girls
Rank in 2025 512th3,903rd
First recorded 18911886
Girls / boys 665 / 41,11215,925 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Corinas alive today are over 41; half the Corbins are over 16. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Corbin Corina
England and Wales 443103
Scotland 1316
Northern Ireland 53

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Corbin and Corina.