Kolbey — boys' name
237 babies named Kolbey in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Kolbey was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Kolbey in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kolbey
The Social Security Administration has registered 237 babies named Kolbey between 1990 and 2017, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kolbey currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Kolbey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 1999.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kolbey performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 116 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kolbey shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kolbey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 237 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Kolbey at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kolbey popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1990
- Peak year (2009)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
237 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 18 births in a single year.
Kolbey popularity over time — girls
22 total births recorded since 1999 (Kolbey as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Kolbey accounts for 8% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kolbey by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 116 births that decade — 49% of Kolbey's all-time total
Kolbey decade highlights
- Peak decade 116 births
- Runner-up 77 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kolbey's strongest decade
116 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1990–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.