# Corrie (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/corrie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 926 |
| US rank (2010) | 26,362 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 333,419 people |
| Change since 2000 | -5.4% (979 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkɒɹi/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Corry |

## Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic coire (“cauldron, boiler; corrie”), which denotes a bowl-shaped geographical feature similar to a cirque.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Corrie in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Corrie in the United States.

## People named Corrie

- Rachel Corrie, American anti-war and human rights activist

## Similar surnames

Correa, Currie, Corey, Correia, Cory, Coria, Core, Corea, Corr, Corry, Cora, Corrao.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.