Kobi
- #3,577 for girls in 2025, 42 births
- #2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
- Given to boys 63.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,971since 1970
Kobi over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #3,577 | 42 | #2,332 | 59 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 66 | #1,673 | 100 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 | #1,803 | 89 |
| 2022 | #2,364 | 78 | #2,000 | 76 |
| 2021 | #1,943 | 101 | #1,770 | 90 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 | #1,743 | 88 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #2,188 | 64 |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | #2,210 | 62 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #2,689 | 45 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #2,809 | 42 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | #2,622 | 46 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | #2,699 | 44 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #2,287 | 57 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #2,140 | 63 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #2,504 | 50 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #2,752 | 39 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 | #1,800 | 66 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | #1,505 | 83 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 | #1,337 | 97 |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 | #1,271 | 102 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | #1,966 | 49 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #1,753 | 55 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #3,559 | 18 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1970
The first year at least five boys were named Kobi! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kobi is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- North Carolina#1,144 · 1 in 8,578
- Georgia#1,350 · 1 in 10,044
- California#2,471 · 1 in 35,095
Best ever in a state: #580 in Louisiana, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #1,144 | 6 | 1 in 8,578 |
| Georgia | #1,350 | 5 | 1 in 10,044 |
| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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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 Kobi
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 589 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #2,332)
- 477 spots since 2015 (#2,809 → #2,332)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2000 at #1,271 (102 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 17,229
- Highest: 1 in 17,229 boys born in 2024 were named Kobi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,950 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,271 in 2000, was only 1 in 19,255 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 32.3% of all boys named Kobi (637) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2023
- Mostly girls until 2022, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 48 | #2,973 (1971) | #4,454 |
| 1980s | 25 | #4,239 (1987) | #5,277 |
| 1990s | 290 | #1,436 (1998) | #3,618 |
| 2000s | 637 | #1,271 (2000) | #2,108 |
| 2010s | 469 | #2,188 (2019) | #2,674 |
| 2020s | 502 | #1,673 (2024) | #1,887 |
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.
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