Corinne is the French form of the Greek Korinna ("maiden") — the 5th-century BCE Greek poet from Tanagra in Boeotia (covered separately as Korinna). A top-300 US baby name from 1880 to 1956. Corinne Bailey Rae (born 1979) — English Grammy-winning singer-songwriter; her 2006 self-titled debut album sold 4 million copies worldwide and earned five Grammy nominations at the 2007 ceremony; the lead single "Put Your Records On" became one of the most-recognizable songs of the late-2000s and was certified Platinum in the UK and US; won the Best Female Solo Performance Brit Award (2007). **The Heart Speaks in Whispers (2016)* and the 2023 album Black Rainbows further cemented her status as one of the most-respected English neo-soul artists of her generation. Corinne (1807) — Madame de Staël's groundbreaking novel about the Italian poet Corinne; one of the foundational works of European Romanticism and feminist literature; influenced Goethe, Byron, and George Eliot. Corinne Boggs — first woman to represent Louisiana in the US House of Representatives (1973-1991). Corinne Foxx (born 1994) — Jamie Foxx's daughter; American actress and model. Corinne Olympios — Bachelor* contestant. Saint Corinne is venerated in the French Catholic tradition.
Featured throughout French literature and modern English music.
Corinne does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Corinne reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.