Cobie
Cobie was last recorded in 2025, when 17 babies were given it; 683 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cobie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cobie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cobie is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cobie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,444, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 2015, the peak
Cobie peaked in 2015, when 41 babies were given it (11 boys, #7,154 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,598 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,319 | 9 | #8,444 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,148 | 8 | #9,070 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,354 | 7 | #10,020 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,433 | 9 | #8,303 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,912 | 8 | #8,890 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,096 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,721 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,526 | 6 | #11,037 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,078 | 7 | #9,855 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,619 | 11 | #7,154 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,104 | 15 | #5,773 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,064 | 11 | #7,120 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,474 | 14 | #6,046 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,869 | 14 | #5,990 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,536 | 8 | #8,944 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,660 | 11 | #7,307 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,167 | 14 | #6,119 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 15 | #5,570 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 9 | #7,746 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 13 | #5,866 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 11 | #6,324 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 29 | #3,115 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 37 | #2,569 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 25 | #3,314 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,026 | 26 | #3,118 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 25 | #3,107 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 17 | #3,906 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 7 | #7,264 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,116 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,462 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,302 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,406 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,333 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,907 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,353 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,450 | 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 Cobie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 683 Americans recorded as Cobie, 41% are girls and 59% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cobie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cobie, and how old are they?
An estimated 673 Americans named Cobie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 676 people named Cobie (282 women and girls, 394 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 Cobie?
Cobie is a less common spelling of Coby: SSA has recorded 683 Cobie and 9,865 Coby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,281 babies since 1880, Cobie is the seventh most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 902 babies (1.9%), 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 Cobie
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 Cobie and names like it
- Compare Cobie and CobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCobie peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cobie since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Cobie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cobie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.