Cobain
#7,775 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cobain has been given to 205 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #7,775 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Cobain, 2025
1 in 332,000
Cobain over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cobain?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,775
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cobain sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cobain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cobains were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cobain was born before 2017 — so the typical Cobain is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 205
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (118).
Is Cobain rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +3,421
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,991
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,032
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2017 (20)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.2% average annual change
Spellings of Cobain
Cobain is not the most common spelling — Colin is, with 39.9% against Cobain's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cobain is used
Across 1910–2025, Cobain was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,490,386 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cobain has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cobain around the world
Where Cobain ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2001–2024#5,120in 2024
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cobain by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cobain
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cobain
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.