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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 178,585 of them was named Kolbe, which outranked 41.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #9,457Zuzu10
- #9,457Zyari10
- #9,457Zylie10
- #10,107Kolbe9
- #10,107Aafiya9
- #10,107Aaliah9
- #10,107Aanshi9
- #10,917Aadhyareddy8
- #10,917Aaila8
- #10,917Aairah8
Tied with 809 names at #10,107; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 21,351 of them was named Kolbe, which outranked 86.1% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,919Lou81
- #1,919Mikel81
- #1,919Rumi81
- #1,932Kolbe80
- #1,932Aj80
- #1,932Colston80
- #1,932Cosmo80
- #1,942Adonai79
- #1,942Bodee79
- #1,942Bowden79
Tied with 9 names at #1,932; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.