Koby
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 411 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,038since 1958
Koby over time
Rank among boys' names. Koby has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | — | #2,167 | 66 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #2,057 | 73 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #2,188 | 65 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,907 | 82 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #1,823 | 85 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,592 | 102 |
| 2019 | — | #1,805 | 85 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,687 | 93 |
| 2017 | — | #1,630 | 97 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,618 | 99 |
| 2015 | — | #1,514 | 109 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,679 | 91 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,444 | 114 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,523 | 105 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,309 | 130 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,267 | 137 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,169 | 155 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,055 | 180 |
| 2007 | — | #1,053 | 178 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,077 | 165 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,035 | 162 | |
| 2004 | — | #878 | 197 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #623 | 330 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #578 | 377 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #537 | 407 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #531 | 411 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #560 | 358 |
| 1998 | — | #591 | 320 | |
| 1997 | — | #758 | 196 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,049 | 116 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,286 | 83 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,421 | 68 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,400 | 69 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,395 | 66 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,336 | 71 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,383 | 65 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,516 | 54 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,482 | 51 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,506 | 47 |
| 1986 | — | #2,510 | 21 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,724 | 35 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,437 | 20 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,676 | 17 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | — | #2,568 | 17 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,113 | 22 |
| 1975 | — | #2,065 | 22 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,934 | 23 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,819 | 12 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Koby! It came in at #3,275, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Koby
- 110 spots since 2024 (#2,057 → #2,167)
- 575 spots since 2020 (#1,592 → #2,167)
- 653 spots since 2015 (#1,514 → #2,167)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 1997 (#1,049 → #758)
- Biggest drop: 255 spots in 2004 (#623 → #878)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2000 at #531 (411 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1997–2004
- Highest: 1 in 4,774 boys born in 2001 were named Koby (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #531 in 2000, was only 1 in 4,779 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.4% of all boys named Koby (2,562) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 12 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,632 |
| 1960s | 54 | #2,476 (1965) | #3,295 |
| 1970s | 179 | #1,934 (1974) | #2,397 |
| 1980s | 286 | #1,482 (1988) | #2,386 |
| 1990s | 1,412 | #560 (1999) | #1,118 |
| 2000s | 2,562 | #531 (2000) | #854 |
| 2010s | 1,060 | #1,267 (2010) | #1,548 |
| 2020s | 473 | #1,592 (2020) | #1,956 |
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.
Koby in 1958
Top boys' names in 1958
More about 1958
boys
2,122,409 boys got a published name in 1958; 1 in 303,201 of them was named Koby, which outranked 27.3% of the 4,502 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).