Korban
Korban was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,354 among boys’ names; 591 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Korban by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Korban?
#9,354 among boys’ names, 2025
Korban fell from #4,355 in 2015 to #9,354 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.0 to 4.7 per million.
42 babies in 2017, the peak
Korban peaked in 2017, when 42 boys were given it, #2,864 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,354 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,476 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,366 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,131 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,174 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,954 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,676 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,836 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,864 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,196 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,355 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,507 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,709 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,954 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,917 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,311 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,366 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,336 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,732 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,202 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,565 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,905 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,735 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,816 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,235 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,193 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,873 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,097 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,125 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,596 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,665 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,523 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Korban a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Korban has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Korban: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Korban, and how old are they?
An estimated 584 Americans named Korban and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 469 people named Korban (7 women and girls, 462 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 494 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Korban?
Korban is a less common spelling of Corban: SSA has recorded 591 Korban and 3,597 Corban since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 67,282 babies since 1880, Korban is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,094 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Korban
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 Korban and names like it
- Compare Korban and CorbanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKorban peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Korban since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Korban.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Korban alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.