Cobey
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,312
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 46 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 682since 1972
Cobey over time
Rank among boys' names. Cobey has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #3,158 | 31 |
| 2003 | #2,922 | 33 |
| 2002 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #2,086 | 50 |
| 2000 | #2,674 | 34 |
| 1999 | #2,063 | 46 |
| 1998 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #5,660 | 9 |
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| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
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| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
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| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #3,659 | 9 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cobey! It came in at #4,441, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cobey
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1999 at #2,063 (46 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 38,858 boys born in 2001 were named Cobey (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 191,432 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,063 in 1999, was only 1 in 41,742 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.1% of all boys named Cobey (280) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 70 | #3,013 (1973) | #3,843 |
| 1980s | 30 | #4,961 (1981) | #5,758 |
| 1990s | 170 | #2,063 (1999) | #4,169 |
| 2000s | 280 | #2,086 (2001) | #3,755 |
| 2010s | 104 | #3,812 (2010) | #8,340 |
| 2020s | 28 | #8,166 (2021) | #10,208 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cobey in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
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1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 270,268 of them was named Cobey, which outranked 22.8% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,963Zephaniah7
- #3,963Zerick7
- #3,963Zoran7
- #4,441Cobey6
- #4,441Abelino6
- #4,441Abimael6
- #4,441Abrahm6
- #4,986Aaric5
- #4,986Aasim5
- #4,986Abiel5
Tied with 544 names at #4,441; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.