How rare is the name Coby?

8,644 people in the United States have the first name Coby, about 1 in 34,941. It ranks #2,710 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

COBY

#2,710

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,644
About
1 in 34,941
This common or more
80.6%
Who bears it

Of the 8,644 people named Coby, 70.3% reported their origin as White, 12.1% as Black and 7.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 94.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Coby peaked in 2001, when 522 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19412025
Peak year
2001
Births that year
522
In 2025*
84 ▼84%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 9,865 babies have been given the name since 1941. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Coby by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,436. The largest share of babies named Coby, 47.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#7,38742
1950s#5,207123
1960s#3,490300
1970s#1,8941,059
1980s#2,231959
1990s#1,7281,961
2000s#1,4363,289
2010s#2,7831,422
2020s#3,178710
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–642.9%
Generation X 1965–8013.5%
Millennials 1981–9619.5%
Generation Z 1997–1247.6%
2013 and later16.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Coby is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Coby has been most common in Louisiana (3.8×), Utah (3.5×), and Texas (2.9×), and least common in New Jersey (0.22×).

6,369 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Coby

#2,708 Jie · 8,648#2,709 Nam · 8,645#2,711 Adrien · 8,637#2,712 Catrina · 8,636

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Coby, most common first.

#14,424 Cobi · 817#14,965 Cobe · 777#17,930 Cobey · 607

Also a last name

As a last name, Coby ranks #24,986 of 156,621, with 1,040 people. See Coby as a last name

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