Coby
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #13,464 · #1,867 for boys in 2025, 84 births
Given to boys 96.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 516 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,484since 1941
Coby over time
Rank among boys' names. Coby has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,867 | 84 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,573 | 110 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,489 | 120 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,540 | 116 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #1,378 | 133 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #1,320 | 136 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,327 | 137 |
| 2018 | — | #1,513 | 113 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,554 | 105 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,450 | 119 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,381 | 125 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,174 | 159 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,203 | 149 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,172 | 155 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,097 | 169 |
| 2010 | — | #1,068 | 180 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #1,014 | 193 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #842 | 258 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #874 | 236 |
| 2006 | — | #827 | 246 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #774 | 256 |
| 2004 | — | #700 | 276 | |
| 2003 | — | #567 | 394 | |
| 2002 | — | #500 | 462 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #462 | 516 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #529 | 415 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #589 | 330 |
| 1998 | — | #576 | 340 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #718 | 219 |
| 1996 | — | #730 | 210 | |
| 1995 | — | #809 | 174 | |
| 1994 | — | #892 | 148 | |
| 1993 | — | #918 | 137 | |
| 1992 | — | #880 | 144 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #945 | 126 |
| 1990 | — | #980 | 115 | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #978 | 109 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #903 | 112 |
| 1987 | — | #990 | 92 | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #995 | 86 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | #963 | 90 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #993 | 80 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #995 | 79 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,059 | 74 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #1,056 | 75 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #982 | 84 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #871 | 100 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #816 | 109 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | #895 | 90 |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | #768 | 117 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 | #854 | 95 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 | #776 | 107 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | #817 | 94 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | #921 | 75 |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 | #928 | 77 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #1,005 | 65 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | #1,042 | 55 |
| 1968 | — | #1,614 | 24 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,340 | 32 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,540 | 25 | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #1,625 | 23 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #1,435 | 30 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | #1,744 | 21 |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #1,876 | 19 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | #2,121 | 15 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | #1,665 | 23 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | #2,177 | 14 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,302 | 12 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | #2,690 | 8 |
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| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Coby! It came in at #2,872, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1945, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Coby is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#814 · 1 in 4,800
- New Jersey#915 · 1 in 6,728
- New York#961 · 1 in 6,598
- Pennsylvania#1,104 · 1 in 8,670
- Florida#1,161 · 1 in 9,422
Best ever in a state: #163 in Montana, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #814 | 5 | 1 in 4,800 |
| New Jersey | #915 | 6 | 1 in 6,728 |
| New York | #961 | 13 | 1 in 6,598 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,104 | 6 | 1 in 8,670 |
| Florida | #1,161 | 10 | 1 in 9,422 |
| Illinois | #1,285 | 5 | 1 in 10,032 |
| Texas | #1,417 | 13 | 1 in 13,647 |
| California | #1,605 | 10 | 1 in 17,987 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Coby
- 294 spots since 2024 (#1,573 → #1,867)
- 547 spots since 2020 (#1,320 → #1,867)
- 486 spots since 2015 (#1,381 → #1,867)
- Biggest jump: 142 spots in 1998 (#718 → #576)
- Biggest drop: 172 spots in 2009 (#842 → #1,014)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 2001 at #462 (516 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1983–2008
- Highest: 1 in 3,765 boys born in 2001 were named Coby (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,334 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.3% of all boys named Coby (3,252) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 27 | #2,690 (1946) | #3,062 |
| 1950s | 86 | #1,665 (1959) | #2,972 |
| 1960s | 256 | #1,042 (1969) | #1,670 |
| 1970s | 929 | #768 (1976) | #865 |
| 1980s | 881 | #903 (1988) | #991 |
| 1990s | 1,943 | #576 (1998) | #804 |
| 2000s | 3,252 | #462 (2001) | #709 |
| 2010s | 1,411 | #1,068 (2010) | #1,294 |
| 2020s | 699 | #1,320 (2020) | #1,528 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Coby in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,255 of them was named Coby, which outranked 89.5% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,485Psalm121
- #1,485Truth121
- #1,485Tymir121
- #1,489Coby120
- #1,489Amani120
- #1,489Benaiah120
- #1,489Huxton120
- #1,498Arman119
- #1,498Pierson119
- #1,498Sulaiman119
Tied with 8 names at #1,489; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.