Corrinne as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Corrinne

What is the meaning of the name Corrinne ?

The baby name Corrinne is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced kuh-RIN or koh-REEN (IPA: /kəˈrɪn/ or /kəˈriːn/).

Corrinne is Greek in Origin.

Corrinne is an English respelling of French Corinne, itself from Greek Korinna (Κόριννα), a diminutive of korē “maiden, girl.” Through Latin Corinna, the name carried a classical pedigree: borne by a Boeotian lyric poet of antiquity and adopted by Ovid as the poetic beloved in the Amores. The meaning centers on youthful femininity and grace encoded in korē.

Adopted into French as Corinne, the name spread into English in the 18th–19th centuries, surging after Madame de Staël’s influential novel Corinne, ou l’Italie (1807). Corrinne, with double r and n, arose in the 20th century as a phonetic and ornamental variant, used to signal either the French ko-REEN reading or the English kə-RIN. Related forms include Corinne, Corrine, Corine, Corinna, Korinna, and Coreen; diminutives and nicknames range from Cory and Corrie to Rin. While never ubiquitous, Corrinne offers a familiar yet slightly uncommon twist on a cultured classic.