Colbey — boys' name

What the Data Says About Colbey

The Social Security Administration has registered 523 babies named Colbey between 1983 and 2016, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Colbey currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Colbey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 28 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colbey performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 211 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Colbey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Colbey in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colbey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 523 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.