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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 253,146 of them was named Koby, which outranked 31.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,781Zuleimy8
- #11,781Zyona8
- #11,781Zyva8
- #12,876Koby7
- #12,876Aabha7
- #12,876Aadvi7
- #12,876Aagna7
- #14,331Aafiya6
- #14,331Aailyah6
- #14,331Aalina6
Tied with 1,454 names at #12,876; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 19,169 of them was named Koby, which outranked 88.6% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,610Kysen100
- #1,610Marcelino100
- #1,610Neo100
- #1,618Koby99
- #1,618Aryeh99
- #1,618Boyd99
- #1,618Dwight99
- #1,628Abdullahi98
- #1,628Arnold98
- #1,628Hamilton98
Tied with 9 names at #1,618; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.