Colbie
Colbie was given to 303 girls in 2025, #881 among girls’ names; 4,099 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,060 Americans named Colbie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Colbie climbed 226 places in 2025, the #23 climb among the girls’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Colbie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Colbie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Colbie is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Colby.”
Also “a male given name, variant of Colby.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Colbie?
#881 among girls’ names, 2025
Colbie rose from #1,356 in 2015 to #881 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.19 per 1,000.
310 babies in 2025, the peak
Colbie peaked in 2025, when 310 babies were given it (303 girls, #881 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 221 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 303 | #881 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 221 | #1,107 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 225 | #1,095 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 229 | #1,091 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,294 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 206 | #1,149 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 172 | #1,327 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 153 | #1,444 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 172 | #1,350 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,288 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 175 | #1,356 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 171 | #1,363 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 174 | #1,339 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,307 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 179 | #1,317 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 163 | #1,409 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,688 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,446 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,714 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,722 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,590 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,558 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,952 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,193 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,683 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,677 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,818 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,191 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,488 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,963 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,724 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,755 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,464 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,070 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,214 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,557 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,540 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,715 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,119 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,520 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,810 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Colbie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,099 Americans recorded as Colbie, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 303 girls and 7 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Colbie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Colbie, and how old are they?
4,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,099 Americans ever recorded as Colbie. The median Colbie alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,548 people named Colbie (2,236 women and girls, 312 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,736 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 216 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,640 |
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 Colbie born?
The states with the most babies named Colbie are Texas, California and Ohio, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #822 | 0.8× |
| California | 23 | #1,120 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 19 | #539 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,068 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 12 | #553 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 11 | #526 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #489 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 10 | #926 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 10 | #550 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 9 | #694 | 1.1× |
Where Colbie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Colbie is most over-represented in Washington: since 1983 it was given 1.1 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 girls’ 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 Colbie 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,022 babies since 1880, Colbie is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 310 of their 490 babies (63%), again the 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 Colbie
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 Colbie and names like it
- Compare Colbie and KolbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sColbie peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Colbie since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Colbie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Colbie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.