Corrina

Corrina most commonly traces to the Greek kore for maiden, made literary by the Roman poet Ovid, who addressed his Amores to a beloved Corinna. The doubled r gives the English spelling a rolling warmth, and the three syllables glide easily from the tongue. The name keeps cropping up in song, from Bo Carter's delta blues to Bob Dylan's reworking to country ballads, wherever longing wants a human shape. Less common than Corinne or Corina, the double-consonant form feels a little fuller, a little more nineteenth-century novel. Romantic without fuss, familiar without being worn out. A name that hums.