Cobi
Cobi is given to both girls and boys: 11 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,983 among girls’ names and #7,283 among boys’, #9,711 among all names counting both); 949 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cobi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cobi?
#7,283 among boys’ names, 2025
Cobi fell from #5,091 in 2015 to #7,283 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 6.4 per million.
47 babies in 2020, the peak
Cobi peaked in 2020, when 47 babies were given it (29 boys, #3,661 among boys’ names). The 22 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 47% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,983 | 11 | #7,283 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,337 | 14 | #6,242 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,111 | 23 | #4,478 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,184 | 21 | #4,732 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,224 | 22 | #4,515 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,383 | 29 | #3,661 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,730 | 22 | #4,505 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,625 | 16 | #5,581 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,408 | 22 | #4,492 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,252 | 19 | #4,980 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,085 | 18 | #5,091 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,983 | 18 | #5,096 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,483 | 11 | #7,119 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,691 | |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,868 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,594 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,919 | 19 | #4,953 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,137 | 18 | #5,097 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,846 | 10 | #7,695 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 13 | #6,158 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 13 | #5,920 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 15 | #5,292 | |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,686 | 26 | #3,451 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,493 | 32 | #2,888 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,884 | 32 | #2,867 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,550 | 33 | #2,744 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,654 | 36 | #2,467 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,710 | 35 | #2,461 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,202 | 21 | #3,364 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,959 | 28 | #2,686 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 33 | #2,356 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 29 | #2,560 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,916 | 6 | #7,789 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,718 | 7 | #6,779 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,352 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,027 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,659 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,502 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,561 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,184 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cobi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 949 Americans recorded as Cobi, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cobi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cobi, and how old are they?
An estimated 933 Americans named Cobi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 817 people named Cobi (249 women and girls, 568 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 752 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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 Cobi?
Cobi is a less common spelling of Coby: SSA has recorded 949 Cobi and 9,865 Coby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,734 babies since 1880, Cobi is the sixth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 968 babies (2.3%), again the sixth 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 Cobi
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 Cobi and names like it
- Compare Cobi and CobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCobi peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cobi since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Cobi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cobi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.