Koby

Where Koby comes from

Koby 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #3,275 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Koby Altman born
    American basketball executive
  3. 2000
    Peak, #531
    411 babies named Koby — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2002
    Koby Brea born
    Dominican-American basketball player
  5. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #878.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Koby Brea · Dominican-American basketball player, born 2002
  • Koby Altman · American basketball executive, born 1982
  • Koby Israelite · Israeli musician, born 1966
  • Koby Arthur · Ghanaian footballer, born 1996
  • Koby Maxwell · Ghanaian record producer, born 1975

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.