Kobie
Kobie is given to both girls and boys: 24 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,320 among girls’ names and #5,736 among boys’, #6,568 among all names counting both); 2,001 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Kobie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kobie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kobie?
#5,736 among boys’ names, 2025
Kobie fell from #4,034 in 2015 to #5,736 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 9.4 per million.
133 babies in 1998, the peak
Kobie peaked in 1998, when 133 babies were given it (109 boys, #1,152 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,320 | 16 | #5,736 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,832 | 20 | #4,977 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,068 | 25 | #4,282 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,729 | 23 | #4,510 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,326 | 12 | #6,916 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,120 | 21 | #4,626 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,949 | 30 | #3,674 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,213 | 18 | #5,218 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,090 | 22 | #4,535 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,553 | 21 | #4,704 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,438 | 26 | #4,034 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,735 | 18 | #5,170 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,653 | 23 | #4,257 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,987 | 28 | #3,753 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,003 | 22 | #4,440 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,516 | 39 | #2,985 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,104 | 33 | #3,372 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,236 | 35 | #3,257 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,606 | 51 | #2,494 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,016 | 20 | #4,608 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 33 | #3,129 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 46 | #2,436 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,890 | 69 | #1,752 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,540 | 95 | #1,388 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,623 | 83 | #1,473 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,091 | 110 | #1,222 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,535 | 91 | #1,322 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,563 | 109 | #1,152 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,317 | 60 | #1,660 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 31 | #2,508 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,628 | 22 | #3,147 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 13 | #4,674 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,640 | 11 | #5,202 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 19 | #3,270 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 14 | #4,089 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,564 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,741 | 6 | #6,003 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,820 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,925 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 15 | #2,963 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,090 | 14 | #3,000 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 12 | #3,293 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 26 | #1,907 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 22 | #2,092 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 21 | #2,083 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 34 | #1,481 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 37 | #1,401 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 26 | #1,759 |
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 Kobie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,001 Americans recorded as Kobie, 23% are girls and 77% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kobie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kobie, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,001 Americans ever recorded as Kobie. The median Kobie alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,507 people named Kobie (321 women and girls, 1,186 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,704 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 197 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 138 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 519 |
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 Kobie born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 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 Kobie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kobie?
Kobie is a less common spelling of Coby: SSA has recorded 2,001 Kobie and 9,865 Coby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,734 babies since 1880, Kobie is the fifth most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 968 babies (4.1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Kobie
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 Kobie and names like it
- Compare Kobie and CobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKobie peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kobie since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Kobie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kobie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.