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Korben

#3,166 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Korben has been given to 2,282 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #3,166 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Korben, 2025

1 in 87,200

Korben over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Korben: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Korben means

Korben is a given name.

The naming story behind Korben

Wikidata records Korben as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q66462871, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,282 boys were recorded with the name Korben between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 2013; its best national rank was #1,334 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,726 in 2020 to #3,166 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,509 in 2015 to #3,166 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Korben?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,166
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Korben sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Korben. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Korbens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Korben was born before 2013 — so the typical Korben is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,282
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (1,127).

Is Korben 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
−393
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,440
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,657
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.5%
Peak was 2013 (129)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,334
2013

Spellings of Korben

Korben is not the most common spelling — Loren is, with 21.6% against Korben's 1.1%.

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 Korben is used

Across 2016–2025, Korben was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 33,554 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 25,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 25,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8Ohio1 in 33,333

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.

Korben around the world

Where Korben 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 & Wales
    1997–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2003–2005
    #535
    in 2005
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2002
    #243
    in 2002
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Korben by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,166
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,440
Best rank ever
#1,334
2013
Peak year
2013
129 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,282
Count in 2025
38

Names similar to Korben

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Korben

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Korben, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Korben

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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