Kobi
#3,577 for girls in 2025, 42 births · #2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
Given to boys 63.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,971since 1970
Kobi over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,577 | 42 | #2,332 | 59 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 66 | #1,673 | 100 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 | #1,803 | 89 |
| 2022 | #2,364 | 78 | #2,000 | 76 |
| 2021 | #1,943 | 101 | #1,770 | 90 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 | #1,743 | 88 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #2,188 | 64 |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | #2,210 | 62 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #2,689 | 45 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #2,809 | 42 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | #2,622 | 46 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | #2,699 | 44 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #2,287 | 57 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #2,140 | 63 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #2,504 | 50 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #2,752 | 39 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 | #1,800 | 66 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | #1,505 | 83 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 | #1,337 | 97 |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 | #1,271 | 102 |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | #1,966 | 49 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #1,753 | 55 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #3,559 | 18 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kobi! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kobi
- 659 spots since 2024 (#1,673 → #2,332)
- 589 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #2,332)
- 477 spots since 2015 (#2,809 → #2,332)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2000 at #1,271 (102 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,229 boys born in 2024 were named Kobi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,950 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,271 in 2000, was only 1 in 19,255 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.3% of all boys named Kobi (637) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2022, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 48 | #2,973 (1971) | #4,454 |
| 1980s | 25 | #4,239 (1987) | #5,277 |
| 1990s | 290 | #1,436 (1998) | #3,618 |
| 2000s | 637 | #1,271 (2000) | #2,108 |
| 2010s | 469 | #2,188 (2019) | #2,674 |
| 2020s | 502 | #1,673 (2024) | #1,887 |
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.
Kobi in 1970
Top girls' names in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
girls
1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 249,735 of them was named Kobi, which outranked 32.0% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,818Yumiko8
- #5,818Yvone8
- #5,818Yvonna8
- #6,362Kobi7
- #6,362Abbi7
- #6,362Abbigail7
- #6,362Adel7
- #7,070Aaronette6
- #7,070Abril6
- #7,070Adrean6
Tied with 707 names at #6,362; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 371,646 of them was named Kobi, which outranked 13.0% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 709 names at #4,724; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.