Kobyn
Kobyn was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,414 among boys’ names; 102 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kobyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kobyn?
#11,414 among boys’ names, 2025
Kobyn rose from #13,165 in 2015 to #11,414 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 3.5 per million.
14 babies in 2014, the peak
Kobyn peaked in 2014, when 14 boys were given it, #6,173 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,414 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,300 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,319 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,261 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,337 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,165 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,173 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,260 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,312 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,285 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #10,533 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,499 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,428 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,745 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kobyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kobyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kobyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kobyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 101 Americans named Kobyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kobyn
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.