Kobe — #409 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kobe

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,923 babies named Kobe between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kobe currently holds the #409 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 1,552 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kobe performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 9,117 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kobe shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,329 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kobe in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kobe 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 21,923 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.