Cobey
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cobey has been given to 682 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 50 recorded.
Babies named Cobey, 2024
1 in 371,000
Cobey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cobey?
Cobey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 191,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cobey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cobey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cobeys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cobey was born before 2001 — so the typical Cobey is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 682
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (280).
Is Cobey 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2001 (50)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.9% average annual change
Spellings of Cobey
Cobey is not the most common spelling — Bobby is, with 20.9% against Cobey's 0.05%.
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 Cobey is used
Across 1910–2025, Cobey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 613,923 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Cobey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cobey around the world
Where Cobey 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 & Wales2002–2025#4,275in 2025
- Scotland2005–2015#686in 2015
- South Australia1994–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cobey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cobey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cobey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.