Unisex name · since 1997
Kobee
260 babies named Kobee in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #11,447 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 260
- born since 1997
- 2000s
- peak decade
Kobee sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 260 recorded since 1997.
Kobee has 260 recorded births among boys since 1997, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1997 to 2024.
- #11,447 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 260 born since 1997
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kobee ranks #11,447 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 260 born since 1997, peaking in the 2000s.
- #11,447 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 260
- born since 1997
- 2000s
- peak decade
Kobee's 260 recorded births place it above 74.81% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kobee's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kobee's SSA record in two at 2010 and the more recent half accounts for 38% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 62%, consistent with a name more common in the past than in recent years. Its calmest year was 2006, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1998 peak of 24, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kobee popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–2024
- Peak year (1998)
- 24
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2024.
260 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 24 births in a single year.
Kobee popularity over time - girls
47 total births recorded since 2001 (Kobee as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Kobee accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kobee by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (112 births, 43% of the file).
2000s was Kobee's strongest decade.
112 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Kobee births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
48 births
- 2000s
2000s
112 births
- 2010s
2010s
76 births
- 2020s 24
2020s
24 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 112 births (43% of all-time use).
Kobee decade highlights
- Peak decade 112 births
- Runner-up 76 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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What to do with Kobee's data
- Kobee's decade-level peak was the 2000s (112 total births); usage has since declined to 24 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kobee: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1998)
Similar record span (~27 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1997–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kobee draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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