Meaning not yet researched.
Kolbe: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,296 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,296 in 2001; #1,939 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Kolbe in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,939 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,296.
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Kolbe: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,296 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 102 (2001).
In 2025, 80 US boys were named Kolbe, making it the 1,939th most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #1,929 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 82 boys named Kolbe in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,296, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 102. For comparison, it was #2,063 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Kolbe, making it the 10,526th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #10,526, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kolbe in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 8 babies. In all, 1,892 US babies have been given the name, 3.5% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 624 babies named Kolbe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 651 US boys were named Kolbe; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,351 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kolbe ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #654 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Colbe are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Colbe (119).
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 Kolbe 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 5 | #654 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #878 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,028 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,184 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,711 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,654 | #2,770 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,526 | 80 | #1,939 |
| 2024 | — | — | 82 | #1,929 |
| 2023 | — | — | 85 | #1,871 |
| 2022 | — | — | 67 | #2,181 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,684 | 63 | #2,242 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,410 | 59 | #2,310 |
| 2019 | — | — | 65 | #2,182 |
| 2018 | — | — | 52 | #2,492 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,241 | 46 | #2,697 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,455 |
| 2015 | — | — | 69 | #2,063 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,964 | 61 | #2,221 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,959 | 49 | #2,505 |
| 2012 | — | — | 50 | #2,507 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,119 | 43 | #2,775 |
| 2010 | — | — | 59 | #2,226 |
| 2009 | — | — | 56 | #2,336 |
| 2008 | — | — | 45 | #2,739 |
| 2007 | — | — | 57 | #2,291 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,955 |
| 2005 | — | — | 35 | #2,991 |
| 2004 | — | — | 52 | #2,226 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,144 | 78 | #1,623 |
| 2002 | — | — | 80 | #1,551 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,558 | 102 | #1,296 |
| 2000 | — | — | 68 | #1,695 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,838 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,404 | 52 | #1,890 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,945 |
| 1996 | — | — | 26 | #2,878 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,674 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,285 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,880 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,995 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,134 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,212 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,956 |
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).