Meaning not yet researched.
Kobi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,276 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,276 in 2000; #2,341 in 2025. About 58% of babies named Kobi in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,341 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,276.
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Kobi: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,276 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 102 (2000).
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Kobi, making it the 2,341st most common boys’ name of the year, down 662 places from #1,679 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 100 boys named Kobi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,276, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #2,837 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Kobi, making it the 3,616th most common girls’ name of the year, down 967 places from #2,649 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 66 girls named Kobi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,950, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 101. For comparison, it was #5,580 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kobi in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 6 babies. In all, 3,118 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 930 babies named Kobi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 725 US boys were named Kobi; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 100. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,950 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kobi ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,220 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Coby (9,865 babies since 1880), Koby (6,135 babies since 1880) and Kobie (2,001 babies since 1880).
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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 Kobi 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,220 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,452 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,653 | #2,767 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,616 | 59 | #2,341 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,649 | 100 | #1,679 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,836 | 89 | #1,814 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,377 | 76 | #2,012 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,950 | 90 | #1,777 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,232 | 88 | #1,755 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,302 | 64 | #2,201 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,971 | 62 | #2,221 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,535 | 52 | #2,471 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,396 | 45 | #2,706 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,580 | 42 | #2,837 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,896 | 46 | #2,646 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,076 | 33 | #3,303 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,480 | 34 | #3,274 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,451 | 44 | #2,724 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,296 | 47 | #2,609 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,163 | 57 | #2,311 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,704 | 63 | #2,153 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,968 | 50 | #2,524 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,337 | 43 | #2,721 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,397 | 39 | #2,784 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,636 | 37 | #2,821 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,699 | 66 | #1,810 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,184 | 83 | #1,511 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,267 | 97 | #1,341 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,348 | 102 | #1,276 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,390 | 49 | #1,979 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,252 | 79 | #1,442 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,064 | 55 | #1,766 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,509 | 30 | #2,573 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,633 | 18 | #3,635 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,632 | 21 | #3,289 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,649 | 8 | #6,574 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,414 | 12 | #4,722 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,314 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,869 | 8 | #6,158 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,586 | 9 | #5,404 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,046 | 6 | #6,883 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,429 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,112 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,259 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,745 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,113 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,555 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,016 | 6 | #5,752 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,548 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,091 | 8 | #4,406 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,028 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,995 | 5 | #5,932 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,538 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,895 | 7 | #4,309 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,736 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,956 | 11 | #3,070 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,677 | 5 | #5,117 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,267 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,575 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,382 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,055 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,760 | — | — |
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).