Corinne
Latin at root, meaning "maiden". Fewer than fifty women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet a Corinne: a French import that never took hold here and is given less than ever now.
Corinne Pronunciation
Corinne is pronounced tso-REEN-ne (/t͡sɔˈrinnɛ/).
What Corinne means
Where Corinne comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Corinne reached French through Latin, and Latin borrowed it from the Greek Korinna. Behind that name sits korē, the Greek word for a young girl. The sense is maiden.
A poet called Korinna wrote verse in ancient Boeotia. Ovid later gave the name Corinna to the beloved of his Amores. In 1807 Madame de Staël published Corinne, ou l'Italie, and her heroine, a poet crowned in Rome, fixed the French spelling in the minds of her readers. From that book the form spread across French salons.
French kept the name plain, with no diminutive trailing after it. On a Polish class register Corinne stands out among the Zofias and Julias, foreign in shape yet easy to say. Polish keeps its own words for the meaning, dziewczę and dziewica. What the name reports, underneath the French polish, is korē: maiden.
How many people are named Corinne
1 in 460078 women in Poland is named Corinne. 49 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5394 among female names.
Corinne's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Corinne as a middle name
Corinne is a first name for 49 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1711th, between Cora (18) and Cristine (18).
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#1709 Claudine18
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#1710 Cora18
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#1711 Corinne18
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#1712 Cristine18
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#1713 Edelgard18