Korben
Korben was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,166 among boys’ names; 2,282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,260 Americans named Korben 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.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Korben by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Korben?
#3,166 among boys’ names, 2025
Korben fell from #1,509 in 2015 to #3,166 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 57.4 to 22.2 per million.
129 babies in 2013, the peak
Korben peaked in 2013, when 129 boys were given it, #1,334 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,166 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,773 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,403 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,144 | 39.5 |
| 2021 | 76 | #1,974 | 43.4 |
| 2020 | 90 | #1,726 | 52.1 |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,578 | 59.1 |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,550 | 60.0 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,563 | 56.7 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,454 | 62.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,509 | 57.4 |
| 2014 | 127 | #1,354 | 66.1 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,334 | 68.2 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,436 | 61.2 |
| 2011 | 115 | #1,435 | 60.6 |
| 2010 | 91 | #1,694 | 47.4 |
| 2009 | 76 | #1,904 | 38.3 |
| 2008 | 97 | #1,616 | 47.5 |
| 2007 | 77 | #1,869 | 37.1 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,117 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,046 | 30.5 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,639 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,016 | 28.9 |
| 2002 | 61 | #1,853 | 31.4 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,168 | 24.7 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,274 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,767 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 37 | #2,369 | 19.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,490 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,843 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,628 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,204 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,080 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,839 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,632 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Korben a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Korben has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Korben: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Korben, and how old are they?
2,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,282 Americans ever recorded as Korben. The median Korben alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,713 people named Korben (9 women and girls, 1,704 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,910 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
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 Korben born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,747 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,791 | 1.1× |
Where Korben is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Korben is most over-represented in Texas: since 1989 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Korben with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 67,282 babies since 1880, Korben is the sixth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 1,094 babies (3.5%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Korben
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 Korben and names like it
- Compare Korben and CorbinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKorben peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Korben since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Korben.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Korben alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.