Kobi
Kobi is given to both girls and boys: 42 girls and 59 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,615 among girls’ names and #2,341 among boys’, #3,522 among all names counting both); 3,118 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Kobi every year since 2023.
An estimated 3,070 Americans named Kobi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kobi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kobi?
#2,341 among boys’ names, 2025
Kobi rose from #2,836 in 2015 to #2,341 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 34.5 per million.
191 babies in 2021, the peak
Kobi peaked in 2021, when 191 babies were given it (90 boys, #1,777 among boys’ names). The 101 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,615 | 59 | #2,341 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,649 | 100 | #1,679 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,836 | 89 | #1,814 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,377 | 76 | #2,011 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,950 | 90 | #1,777 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,232 | 88 | #1,755 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,301 | 64 | #2,200 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,970 | 62 | #2,220 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,533 | 52 | #2,470 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,395 | 45 | #2,705 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,578 | 42 | #2,836 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,894 | 46 | #2,644 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,074 | 33 | #3,301 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,477 | 34 | #3,271 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,448 | 44 | #2,723 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,294 | 47 | #2,608 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,162 | 57 | #2,310 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,701 | 63 | #2,152 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,964 | 50 | #2,524 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,335 | 43 | #2,720 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,391 | 39 | #2,780 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,631 | 37 | #2,817 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,694 | 66 | #1,807 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,180 | 83 | #1,508 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,263 | 97 | #1,337 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,343 | 102 | #1,273 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,386 | 49 | #1,976 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,248 | 79 | #1,439 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,059 | 55 | #1,763 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,504 | 30 | #2,568 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,627 | 18 | #3,629 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,626 | 21 | #3,283 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,643 | 8 | #6,568 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,406 | 12 | #4,715 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 10 | #5,307 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,863 | 8 | #6,151 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,580 | 9 | #5,397 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,041 | 6 | #6,876 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 10 | #4,422 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,108 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,256 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,740 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,109 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,553 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,013 | 6 | #5,750 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,546 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,089 | 8 | #4,404 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,026 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,993 | 5 | #5,930 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,537 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,893 | 7 | #4,307 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,734 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,954 | 11 | #3,068 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,676 | 5 | #5,115 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,265 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,573 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,381 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,054 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,759 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kobi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,118 Americans recorded as Kobi, 37% are girls and 63% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kobi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kobi, and how old are they?
3,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,118 Americans ever recorded as Kobi. The median Kobi alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,149 people named Kobi (703 women and girls, 1,446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,198 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 115 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 215 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,470 |
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 Kobi born?
The states with the most babies named Kobi are Texas, North Carolina and California, with 80% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,220 | 0.4× |
| California | 5 | #2,653 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,452 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Kobi 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,734 babies since 1880, Kobi is the fourth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 101 of their 968 babies (10%), the second 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 Kobi
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 Kobi and names like it
- Compare Kobi and KobeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKobi peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kobi since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kobi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kobi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.