Corban

Where Corban comes from

Corban hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #5,227 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Corban Joseph born
    baseball player
  3. 1990
    Corban Knight born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  4. 2013
    Peak, #966
    207 babies named Corban — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,717.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Corban Knight · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1990
  • Corban Joseph · baseball player, born 1988
  • Corban Collins · American basketball player, born 1994
  • Corban Wroe · Australian basketball player, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.