Cobe
Cobe was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,735 among boys’ names; 857 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cobe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cobe?
#4,735 among boys’ names, 2025
Cobe fell from #4,099 in 2015 to #4,735 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.0 to 12.3 per million.
61 babies in 2001, the peak
Cobe peaked in 2001, when 61 boys were given it, #1,815 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,735 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,711 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,236 | 21.6 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,731 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 41 | #2,983 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,624 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,863 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,088 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,884 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,647 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,099 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,520 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,351 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,912 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,686 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,257 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,845 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,158 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,027 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,910 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,459 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,227 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,239 | 24.3 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,972 | 28.8 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,815 | 31.4 |
| 2000 | 54 | #1,925 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,803 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,280 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,085 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,263 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cobe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cobe has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cobe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cobe, and how old are they?
An estimated 845 Americans named Cobe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 7 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 777 people named Cobe (28 women and girls, 749 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 664 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Cobe?
Cobe is a less common spelling of Kobe: SSA has recorded 857 Cobe and 23,126 Kobe since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,734 babies since 1880, Cobe is the seventh most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 968 babies (2.2%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cobe
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cobe and names like it
- Compare Cobe and KobeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCobe peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cobe since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Cobe.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cobe alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.