Kobey
Kobey was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,617 among boys’ names; 606 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kobey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kobey?
#8,617 among boys’ names, 2025
Kobey entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,617 in 2025.
65 babies in 2002, the peak
Kobey peaked in 2002, when 65 boys were given it, #1,776 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,617 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,459 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,530 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,284 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,620 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,382 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,399 | 5.8 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,498 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,095 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,611 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | #5,098 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,560 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,709 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,651 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,442 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,948 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,270 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,945 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,330 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 65 | #1,776 | 33.5 |
| 2001 | 55 | #1,967 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,105 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,081 | 24.0 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,860 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,972 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,370 | 5.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,962 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,955 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kobey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kobey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kobey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kobey, and how old are they?
An estimated 595 Americans named Kobey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 565 people named Kobey (31 women and girls, 534 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below 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 Kobey?
Kobey is a less common spelling of Coby: SSA has recorded 606 Kobey and 9,865 Coby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,390 babies since 1880, Kobey is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 938 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Kobey
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 Kobey and names like it
- Compare Kobey and CobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKobey peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kobey since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Kobey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kobey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.