# Corbin

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #24,125

## Definitions
1. An English surname from Anglo-Norman.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A city in Knox County and Whitley County, Kentucky, United States.

## Etymology
An Anglo-Norman nickname from corb (“crow”), or shortened from the Corbinian, the name of a Frankish eighth-century saint, probably from Latin corvus (“crow, raven”).

## Easily confused with
- **corn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corbin-vs-corn)
- **corgi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corbin-vs-corgi)
- **cousin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corbin-vs-cousin)
- **Corbyn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corbin-vs-corbyn)
- **cordon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corbin-vs-cordon)
- **Curtin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corbin-vs-curtin)
- **corrie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/corbin-vs-corrie)
- **coin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coin-vs-corbin)
- **cabin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cabin-vs-corbin)
- **Colin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colin-vs-corbin)
- **carbon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carbon-vs-corbin)
- **coffin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coffin-vs-corbin)
- **carlin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carlin-vs-corbin)
- **Collin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/collin-vs-corbin)
- **Cobain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cobain-vs-corbin)
- **Cochin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cochin-vs-corbin)
- **combine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combine-vs-corbin)
- **combing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-corbin)
- **carbine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carbine-vs-corbin)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ccorbin`, `cobrin`, `corbbin`, `corbinn`, `corbni`, `coribn`, `corrbin`, `crobin`, `ocrbin`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/corbin