Kobey
#8,617 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kobey has been given to 606 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #8,617 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 65 recorded.
Babies named Kobey, 2025
1 in 368,000
Kobey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kobey?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,617
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kobey 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kobey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kobeys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kobey was born before 2002 — so the typical Kobey is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 55.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 606
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (337).
Is Kobey 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
- +1,842
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,333
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 13.8%
- Peak was 2002 (65)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 25.0% average annual change
Spellings of Kobey
Kobey is not the most common spelling — Bobby is, with 40.2% against Kobey's 0.08%.
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 Kobey is used
Across 1910–2025, Kobey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,057,309 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Ohio1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
- 4Utah1 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. Kobey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kobey around the world
Where Kobey 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#3,684in 2025
- Ireland2020–2020#637in 2020
- Canada2003–2015#2,735in 2015
- South Australia1985–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kobey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kobey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kobey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.