Kolbie
#1,905 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kolbie has been given to 1,907 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,905 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 102 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% girls, 23% boys all-time.
Babies named Kolbie, 2025
1 in 32,500
Kolbie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kolbie over time
In 2025, Kolbie went to 94% girls and 6% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kolbie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 32,500
- 102 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 15,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,905
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 22,530 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kolbie 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 22,530 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kolbie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kolbies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kolbie was born before 2014 — so the typical Kolbie is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,475
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (617).
Is Kolbie 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
- +521
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +279
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +632
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.44×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (102)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kolbie
Kolbie is not the most common spelling — Kylie is, with 23.1% against Kolbie's 0.28%.
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 Kolbie is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Kolbie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 41,911 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 2Kansas1 in 20,000
- 3Texas1 in 20,000
- 4Alabama1 in 33,333
- 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6Ohio1 in 33,333
- 7Colorado1 in 50,000
- 8Georgia1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Where Kolbie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Kolbie was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,210,576 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Kolbie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kolbie around the world
Where Kolbie 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.
- Canada2014–2020#2,626in 2020
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kolbie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kolbie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kolbie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.