Koren

Where Koren comes from

(Surname): From Hebrew קורן.
— Wiktionary's entry for Koren
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #4,315 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Peak, #1,314
    91 babies named Koren — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,414.
  4. 2006
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Koren hasn't yet.

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.