Kolbe
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #1,932 for boys in 2025, 80 births
Given to boys 96.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,825since 1989
Kolbe over time
Rank among boys' names. Kolbe has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #10,107 | 9 | #1,932 | 80 |
| 2024 | — | #1,921 | 82 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,868 | 85 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,168 | 67 | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #2,225 | 63 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,292 | 59 |
| 2019 | — | #2,170 | 65 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,472 | 52 | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #2,672 | 46 |
| 2016 | — | #2,437 | 52 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,055 | 69 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #2,205 | 61 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #2,492 | 49 |
| 2012 | — | #2,488 | 50 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #2,748 | 43 |
| 2010 | — | #2,212 | 59 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,320 | 56 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,717 | 45 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,281 | 57 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,932 | 38 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,960 | 35 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,208 | 52 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,611 | 78 |
| 2002 | — | #1,543 | 80 | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #1,287 | 102 |
| 2000 | — | #1,681 | 68 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,824 | 54 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #1,871 | 52 |
| 1997 | — | #2,903 | 26 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,838 | 26 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kolbe! It came in at #5,615, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kolbe
- 11 spots since 2024 (#1,921 → #1,932)
- 360 spots since 2020 (#2,292 → #1,932)
- 123 spots since 2015 (#2,055 → #1,932)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2001 at #1,287 (102 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,048 boys born in 2001 were named Kolbe (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,351 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.5% of all boys named Kolbe (611) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 8 | #5,615 (1989) | #5,615 |
| 1990s | 224 | #1,824 (1999) | #4,017 |
| 2000s | 611 | #1,287 (2001) | #2,154 |
| 2010s | 546 | #2,055 (2015) | #2,395 |
| 2020s | 436 | #1,868 (2023) | #2,068 |
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.
Kolbe in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 225,078 of them was named Kolbe, which outranked 38.7% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,102Zorria9
- #10,102Zyanne9
- #10,102Zyriah9
- #11,020Kolbe8
- #11,020Aalaysia8
- #11,020Aaleigha8
- #11,020Aarin8
- #12,056Aaisha7
- #12,056Aajaylah7
- #12,056Aaliayah7
Tied with 1,035 names at #11,020; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 19,048 of them was named Kolbe, which outranked 89.5% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,283Bradford103
- #1,283Rico103
- #1,283Soren103
- #1,287Kolbe102
- #1,287Chauncey102
- #1,287Chayton102
- #1,287Demetri102
- #1,298Anson101
- #1,298Benton101
- #1,298Favian101
Tied with 10 names at #1,287; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.