Boys' name · since 2004
Kobin
64 babies named Kobin in U.S. Social Security records since 2004, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 64
- total births
- 2004–2020
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
Kobin is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 64 have been recorded since 2004.
Kobin has 64 recorded births among boys since 2004, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2004 to 2020.
- 64 total births
- 2004–2020 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kobin's 64 recorded births place it above 55% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kobin's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kobin splits its recorded history at 2012: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2006 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2008 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kobin popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2004–2020
- Peak year (2008)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Kobin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Kobin's strongest decade.
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Kobin births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
27 births
- 2010s
2010s
32 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 32 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Kobin's decade-level peak was the 2010s (32 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 2004–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kobin: Baby Name Since 2004 - 64 Births, Peak 2008." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kobin. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Kobin 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 July 2026.