Entry № 5563 · Greek origin

Korinna Korinna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ koh-RIN-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Greek poet who beat Pindar"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "greek poet who beat pindar".

Korinna (Κόριννα, 6th-5th c. BCE) was the Boeotian lyric poet from Tanagra — said to have defeated Pindar in poetic competition five times. Her fragments survive on papyri and quotation. Counted among the Nine Lyric Poetesses by Hellenistic scholars.

Featured in Pausanias's Description of Greece.

Greek poet who defeated Pindar five times.

The name in its native script.

Κόριννα
Transliteration
Kórinna
Pronunciation
/ kəˈrɪn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Korinna stands.

Korinna 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.

Korinnas before her.

Real people
Korinna of Tanagra
Greek lyric poet.
6th-5th c. BCE
In fiction
Korinna
Featured in Pausanias.
2nd c. CE

Names connected to Korinna.

The number behind Korinna.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Korinna reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.