Cobe
#4,735 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cobe has been given to 857 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #4,735 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 61 recorded.
Babies named Cobe, 2025
1 in 158,000
Cobe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cobe?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 81,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,735
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cobe 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cobe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cobes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cobe was born before 2008 — so the typical Cobe is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 857
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (378).
Is Cobe 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
- −1,024
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,111
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −636
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.84×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 34.4%
- Peak was 2001 (61)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cobe
Cobe is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 25.5% against Cobe's 0.04%.
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 Cobe is used
Across 1910–2025, Cobe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 489,153 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Cobe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cobe around the world
Where Cobe 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 & Wales2019–2025#5,137in 2025
- Canada2003–2003#1,899in 2003
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cobe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cobe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cobe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.