girls:
202 births since 1965
#5514 (4th percentile)
boys:
786 births since 1958
#3801 (17th percentile)
overall:
988 births since 1958
#6751 (13th percentile)
The name Corinthian is the #6,751 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 988 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 12.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,801 (17.1% percentile) for all time with 786 births since 1958. For girls, it ranks #5,514 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 202 births since 1965.
Corinthian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1965 for girls). Birth data for Corinthian is available in 56 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 31 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Corinthian has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Corinthian were boys.
For boys, Corinthian reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #803) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Corinthian ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 75.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Corinthian reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #816) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Corinthian".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Corinthian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.5% confident that Corinthian is pronounced as ker-IHN-thee-uhn, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kaw-RIHN-thee-uhn, at 20.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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