Coby
Coby was given to 84 boys in 2025, #1,874 among boys’ names; 9,865 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,470 Americans named Coby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Coby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Coby is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Coby?
#1,874 among boys’ names, 2025
Coby fell from #1,383 in 2015 to #1,874 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 65.2 to 49.2 per million.
522 babies in 2001, the peak
Coby peaked in 2001, when 522 babies were given it (516 boys, #462 among boys’ names). The 84 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #1,874 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,575 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,491 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 116 | #1,542 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 133 | #1,379 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,321 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 137 | #1,329 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,513 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,556 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,452 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 125 | #1,383 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,174 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,206 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 155 | #1,174 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 169 | #1,097 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 180 | #1,070 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 193 | #1,017 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 258 | #842 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 236 | #874 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 246 | #828 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 256 | #774 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 276 | #700 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 394 | #567 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 462 | #500 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 516 | #462 | 0.27 |
| 2000 | 415 | #529 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 330 | #588 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 340 | #576 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 219 | #717 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 210 | #729 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 174 | #807 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 148 | #890 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 137 | #916 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 144 | #877 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 126 | #941 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 115 | #977 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 109 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 112 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 92 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 86 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 90 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 80 | #993 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 79 | #995 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 84 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 100 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 109 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 90 | #895 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 117 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 95 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 107 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 94 | #819 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 75 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 77 | #929 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 65 | #1,006 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,043 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,617 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 32 | #1,343 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,542 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,631 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 30 | #1,439 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,748 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,400 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,890 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,674 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,191 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,921 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,428 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,069 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,919 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Coby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,865 Americans recorded as Coby, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 84 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Coby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coby, and how old are they?
9,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 9,865 Americans ever recorded as Coby. The median Coby alive today is 25 years old; half are between 18 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 8,644 people named Coby (441 women and girls, 8,203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,910 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 208 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Coby born?
The states with the most babies named Coby are Texas, New York and Georgia, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,675 | 1.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,444 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,237 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 6 | #781 | 0.4× |
| California | 5 | #2,541 | 0.5× |
Where Coby is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Coby is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1941 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Coby with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,415 babies since 1880, Coby is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 928 babies (9.1%), the third most given that year.
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 Coby
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 Coby and names like it
- Compare Coby and KobeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCoby peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coby since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Coby.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Coby alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.