Kobe
#3,780 for girls in 2025, 39 births · #518 for boys in 2025, 578 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 1,552 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 22,513since 1989
Kobe over time
Rank among boys' names. Kobe has never cracked the top 200 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,780 | 39 | #518 | 578 |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | #410 | 790 |
| 2023 | #3,709 | 41 | #421 | 755 |
| 2022 | #3,171 | 51 | #381 | 851 |
| 2021 | #2,818 | 60 | #297 | 1,117 |
| 2020 | #2,850 | 57 | #239 | 1,518 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 | #556 | 507 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #575 | 481 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #531 | 533 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #512 | 583 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #594 | 465 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #532 | 524 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #494 | 553 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | #506 | 526 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #477 | 555 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #428 | 645 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #419 | 687 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #403 | 730 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #471 | 573 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #538 | 469 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #544 | 444 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #415 | 625 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | #265 | 1,213 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #244 | 1,392 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 | #222 | 1,552 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #238 | 1,432 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | #323 | 860 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #263 | 1,104 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #553 | 350 |
| 1996 | — | #1,265 | 87 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kobe! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kobe is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maine#98 · 1 in 392
- Hawaii#100 · 1 in 392
- Louisiana#105 · 1 in 477
- Arkansas#116 · 1 in 444
- Oklahoma#117 · 1 in 429
Best ever in a state: #84 in Hawaii, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #98 | 14 | 1 in 392 |
| Hawaii | #100 | 13 | 1 in 392 |
| Louisiana | #105 | 54 | 1 in 477 |
| Arkansas | #116 | 33 | 1 in 444 |
| Oklahoma | #117 | 48 | 1 in 429 |
| North Dakota | #134 | 7 | 1 in 480 |
| South Dakota | #140 | 8 | 1 in 494 |
| Tennessee | #140 | 53 | 1 in 660 |
| Rhode Island | #142 | 7 | 1 in 741 |
| Nebraska | #146 | 19 | 1 in 540 |
| Nevada | #146 | 23 | 1 in 556 |
| South Carolina | #148 | 27 | 1 in 744 |
| Mississippi | #151 | 21 | 1 in 695 |
| Alaska | #152 | 6 | 1 in 533 |
| Utah | #152 | 36 | 1 in 596 |
| West Virginia | #152 | 12 | 1 in 738 |
| Kentucky | #157 | 29 | 1 in 798 |
| Alabama | #164 | 28 | 1 in 828 |
| Iowa | #168 | 23 | 1 in 707 |
| Missouri | #172 | 40 | 1 in 833 |
| New Hampshire | #173 | 6 | 1 in 955 |
| New Mexico | #190 | 12 | 1 in 885 |
| Idaho | #192 | 11 | 1 in 735 |
| Montana | #205 | 5 | 1 in 779 |
| Oregon | #208 | 22 | 1 in 877 |
| Kansas | #210 | 18 | 1 in 913 |
| Michigan | #222 | 43 | 1 in 1,306 |
| Washington | #222 | 31 | 1 in 1,082 |
| Indiana | #236 | 28 | 1 in 1,332 |
| Georgia | #238 | 45 | 1 in 1,240 |
| Virginia | #242 | 27 | 1 in 1,499 |
| Minnesota | #244 | 20 | 1 in 1,466 |
| Massachusetts | #245 | 19 | 1 in 1,869 |
| Ohio | #251 | 39 | 1 in 1,718 |
| Florida | #261 | 62 | 1 in 1,451 |
| Connecticut | #263 | 9 | 1 in 1,967 |
| North Carolina | #266 | 33 | 1 in 1,523 |
| Texas | #269 | 124 | 1 in 1,408 |
| Wisconsin | #270 | 17 | 1 in 1,696 |
| California | #275 | 143 | 1 in 1,714 |
| Illinois | #310 | 44 | 1 in 1,782 |
| Pennsylvania | #310 | 26 | 1 in 2,439 |
| Arizona | #315 | 21 | 1 in 1,853 |
| Colorado | #316 | 17 | 1 in 1,763 |
| Maryland | #355 | 12 | 1 in 2,358 |
| New York | #410 | 37 | 1 in 2,978 |
| New Jersey | #506 | 11 | 1 in 4,343 |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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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 Kobe
- 108 spots since 2024 (#410 → #518)
- 279 spots since 2020 (#239 → #518)
- 76 spots since 2015 (#594 → #518)
- Biggest jump: 712 spots in 1997 (#1,265 → #553)
- Biggest drop: 150 spots in 2004 (#265 → #415)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2001 at #222 (1,552 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,137 boys born in 2020 were named Kobe (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,955 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #222 in 2001, was only 1 in 1,252 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.5% of all boys named Kobe (9,117) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 2,410 | #263 (1998) | #1,666 |
| 2000s | 9,117 | #222 (2001) | #376 |
| 2010s | 5,372 | #428 (2010) | #521 |
| 2020s | 5,609 | #239 (2020) | #378 |
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.
Kobe in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 112,305 of them was named Kobe, which outranked 63.0% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,392Ziona17
- #6,392Zurisadai17
- #6,392Zyria17
- #6,698Kobe16
- #6,698Aalliyah16
- #6,698Abbegail16
- #6,698Abi16
- #7,045Aalyssa15
- #7,045Abagael15
- #7,045Abaigeal15
Tied with 346 names at #6,698; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 1,395 of them was named Kobe, which outranked 98.0% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.