Koby
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 411 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,038since 1958
Koby over time
Rank among boys' names. Koby has never cracked the top 500 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 | — | #2,167 | 66 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #2,057 | 73 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #2,188 | 65 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,907 | 82 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #1,823 | 85 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,592 | 102 |
| 2019 | — | #1,805 | 85 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,687 | 93 |
| 2017 | — | #1,630 | 97 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,618 | 99 |
| 2015 | — | #1,514 | 109 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,679 | 91 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,444 | 114 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,523 | 105 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,309 | 130 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,267 | 137 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,169 | 155 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,055 | 180 |
| 2007 | — | #1,053 | 178 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,077 | 165 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,035 | 162 | |
| 2004 | — | #878 | 197 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #623 | 330 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #578 | 377 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #537 | 407 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #531 | 411 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #560 | 358 |
| 1998 | — | #591 | 320 | |
| 1997 | — | #758 | 196 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,049 | 116 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,286 | 83 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,421 | 68 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,400 | 69 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,395 | 66 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,336 | 71 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,383 | 65 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,516 | 54 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,482 | 51 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,506 | 47 |
| 1986 | — | #2,510 | 21 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,724 | 35 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,437 | 20 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,676 | 17 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | — | #2,568 | 17 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,113 | 22 |
| 1975 | — | #2,065 | 22 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,934 | 23 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,819 | 12 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Koby! It came in at #3,275, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Koby is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#459 · 1 in 3,558
- Arkansas#502 · 1 in 3,042
- Kansas#540 · 1 in 3,383
- Oklahoma#550 · 1 in 3,062
- Louisiana#632 · 1 in 3,593
Best ever in a state: #134 in North Dakota, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #459 | 9 | 1 in 3,558 |
| Arkansas | #502 | 5 | 1 in 3,042 |
| Kansas | #540 | 5 | 1 in 3,383 |
| Oklahoma | #550 | 7 | 1 in 3,062 |
| Louisiana | #632 | 7 | 1 in 3,593 |
| Missouri | #732 | 6 | 1 in 5,753 |
| Colorado | #738 | 5 | 1 in 5,935 |
| Indiana | #760 | 6 | 1 in 6,382 |
| Texas | #858 | 22 | 1 in 8,600 |
| North Carolina | #885 | 7 | 1 in 7,959 |
| Virginia | #940 | 5 | 1 in 8,595 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,008 | 6 | 1 in 10,645 |
| Illinois | #1,088 | 7 | 1 in 10,679 |
| Florida | #1,125 | 9 | 1 in 11,167 |
| California | #1,631 | 10 | 1 in 25,417 |
| New York | #1,794 | 5 | 1 in 21,823 |
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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 Koby
- 110 spots since 2024 (#2,057 → #2,167)
- 575 spots since 2020 (#1,592 → #2,167)
- 653 spots since 2015 (#1,514 → #2,167)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 1997 (#1,049 → #758)
- Biggest drop: 255 spots in 2004 (#623 → #878)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2000 at #531 (411 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1997–2004
- Highest: 1 in 4,774 boys born in 2001 were named Koby (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #531 in 2000, was only 1 in 4,779 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.4% of all boys named Koby (2,562) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 12 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,632 |
| 1960s | 54 | #2,476 (1965) | #3,295 |
| 1970s | 179 | #1,934 (1974) | #2,397 |
| 1980s | 286 | #1,482 (1988) | #2,386 |
| 1990s | 1,412 | #560 (1999) | #1,118 |
| 2000s | 2,562 | #531 (2000) | #854 |
| 2010s | 1,060 | #1,267 (2010) | #1,548 |
| 2020s | 473 | #1,592 (2020) | #1,956 |
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.
Koby in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 270,134 of them was named Koby, which outranked 32.5% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,579Zykeira8
- #12,579Zymia8
- #12,579Zyrihanna8
- #13,832Koby7
- #13,832Aahna7
- #13,832Aala7
- #13,832Aaleah7
- #15,405Aahliyah6
- #15,405Aalaiyah6
- #15,405Aamiya6
Tied with 1,572 names at #13,832; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 11,334 of them was named Koby, which outranked 92.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).