Corbet — boys' name
333 babies named Corbet in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1974. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
23% of everyone ever named Corbet was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Corbet in 1974 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Corbet
The Social Security Administration has registered 333 babies named Corbet between 1913 and 2019, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Corbet currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Corbet performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 75 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Corbet shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Corbet in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Corbet 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 333 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.
Corbet at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Corbet popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1913
- Peak year (1974)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
333 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1974 with 13 births in a single year.
Corbet by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 75 births that decade — 23% of Corbet's all-time total
Corbet decade highlights
- Peak decade 75 births
- Runner-up 49 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Corbet's strongest decade
75 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Corbet by state
Where Corbet concentrates geographically — total births since 1913
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kentucky | | 5 | 1.5% |
5 of 333 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 1.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 1.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.