Meaning not yet researched.
Kobe: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 578 in 2025. Its best rank was #222 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #222 in 2001; #519 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Kobe in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#519 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #222.
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Kobe: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 578 boys in 2025. Peak: #222 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 1,552 (2001).
In 2025, 578 US boys were named Kobe, making it the 519th most common boys’ name of the year, down 109 places from #410 in 2024. That is 212 fewer than the 790 boys named Kobe in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #222, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,552. For comparison, it was #594 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kobe in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 23,126 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 9,253 babies named Kobe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,713 US boys were named Kobe; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 1,518. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,955 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kobe ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #255 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Cobe, Koebe and Cobb are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cobe (857), Koebe (12), Cobb (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kobe in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 12 | #255 | — |
| Mississippi | 12 | #273 | #401 |
| Indiana | 22 | #346 | #646 |
| Virginia | 20 | #401 | #649 |
| Washington | 18 | #409 | #582 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #412 | #904 |
| Kansas | 9 | #417 | — |
| Maryland | 12 | #426 | #471 |
| Missouri | 15 | #430 | #452 |
| Michigan | 20 | #433 | #373 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #440 | #414 |
| Georgia | 25 | #447 | #405 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #461 | #636 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #470 | #682 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #471 | #398 |
| Alabama | 11 | #473 | #662 |
| Ohio | 22 | #488 | #546 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #509 | #414 |
| California | 60 | #514 | #623 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #525 | #299 |
| Illinois | 17 | #557 | #626 |
| Florida | 31 | #564 | #639 |
| Texas | 55 | #572 | #676 |
| New York | 27 | #575 | #585 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #582 | #429 |
| Arizona | 11 | #608 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #629 | #687 |
| Iowa | 5 | #631 | #613 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #666 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #667 | #466 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,808 | 578 | #519 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,727 | 790 | #410 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,744 | 755 | #421 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,192 | 851 | #381 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,837 | 1,117 | #298 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,871 | 1,518 | #239 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,570 | 507 | #556 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,508 | 481 | #575 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,962 | 533 | #531 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,302 | 583 | #513 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,801 | 465 | #594 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,302 | 524 | #532 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,375 | 553 | #494 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,901 | 526 | #506 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,433 | 555 | #477 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,539 | 645 | #428 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,725 | 687 | #419 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,349 | 730 | #403 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,185 | 573 | #471 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,282 | 469 | #540 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,524 | 444 | #544 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,235 | 625 | #416 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,417 | 1,213 | #265 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,887 | 1,392 | #244 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,955 | 1,552 | #222 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,725 | 1,432 | #238 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,804 | 860 | #323 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,803 | 1,104 | #263 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,081 | 350 | #553 |
| 1996 | — | — | 87 | #1,271 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,199 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,636 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).