Korena — girls' name
456 babies named Korena in U.S. Social Security records since 1961, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
26% of everyone ever named Korena was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Korena in 1971 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Korena
The Social Security Administration has registered 456 babies named Korena between 1961 and 2010, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Korena currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Korena performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Korena shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Korena in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Korena in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 456 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Korena at a glance
Last recorded 2010Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Korena popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2010–1961
- Peak year (1971)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 50 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2010.
456 total births across 50 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1971 with 21 births in a single year.
Korena by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 119 births that decade — 26% of Korena's all-time total
Korena decade highlights
- Peak decade 119 births
- Runner-up 111 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Korena's strongest decade
119 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
Korena by state
Where Korena concentrates geographically — total births since 1961
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 11 | 2.4% |
11 of 456 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1961–2010 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.