Colbi
Colbi was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,680 among girls’ names; 669 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Colbi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Colbi?
#4,680 among girls’ names, 2025
Colbi rose from #8,099 in 2015 to #4,680 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 18.0 per million.
29 babies in 2025, the peak
Colbi peaked in 2025, when 29 girls were given it, #4,680 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 10 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,680 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,693 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,996 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,264 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,456 | 5 | #12,488 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,694 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,702 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,626 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,454 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,714 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,099 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,031 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,469 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,209 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,191 | 7 | #9,811 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,457 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,539 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,173 | 5 | #12,863 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,188 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,909 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,312 | 5 | #11,756 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,388 | 7 | #9,113 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,088 | 5 | #11,194 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,126 | 7 | #8,614 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,620 | 5 | #10,874 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,991 | 7 | #8,338 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,958 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,190 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,099 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,126 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,705 | 6 | #7,962 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,199 | 5 | #9,036 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #8,949 | |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,132 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,213 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,882 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,913 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,350 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,114 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,837 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,064 | 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 Colbi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 669 Americans recorded as Colbi, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 29 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 Colbi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Colbi, and how old are they?
An estimated 660 Americans named Colbi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 604 people named Colbi (492 women and girls, 112 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 553 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 Colbi?
Colbi is a less common spelling of Colbie: SSA has recorded 669 Colbi and 4,099 Colbie since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,867 babies since 1880, Colbi is the fourth most given (8.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 490 babies (5.9%), again the fourth 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 Colbi
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 Colbi and names like it
- Compare Colbi and ColbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Colbi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Colbi alive today were born 1997-2012.
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