Corina

Where Corina comes from

The dictionaries list Corina as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Corinna — 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. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Corina Casanova born
    Swiss politician
  3. 1978
    Corina Morariu born
    US tennis player
  4. 1980
    Peak, #523
    370 babies named Corina — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,376.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Corinna.
Namesakes
  • Corina Morariu · US tennis player, born 1978
  • Corina Casanova · Swiss politician, born 1956
  • Corina Crețu · Romanian politician, born 1967
  • Corina Căprioriu · Romanian judoka, born 1986
  • Corina Smith · Venezuelan singer, born 1991

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.