Given name & surname
Corrin
“one who wields a spear”
Corrin is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “one who wields a spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “one who wields a spear.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1935. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Corrin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,132
- 152 boys · 1,980 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 79 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,435 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −76%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,435 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 79 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,065 as a first name in 2020; 379 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Corrin’s family of names
Corrin has a related form in Corina. Corrin has a related form in Corin. Corrin has a related form in Coryn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Corinavariant
- Corinvariant
- Curranvariant · English
- Corynvariant
- Corrynvariant
- Coronvariant
- Coranvariant
- Corenvariant
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Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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