Boy

Korben

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#3,167
38 boys
2015
#1,509
rank
1950
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not ranked

Korben: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,334 in 2013.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,334 in 2013; #3,167 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Korben in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#3,167 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,334.

Babies in 2025
38
Since 1880
2,282
Years on record
35

Babies named Korben, every year since 1880

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Boys

Korben: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,334 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 129 (2013).

About the name Korben

In 2025, 38 US boys were named Korben, making it the 3,167th most common boys’ name of the year, down 394 places from #2,773 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 47 boys named Korben in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,334, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 129. For comparison, it was #1,509 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Korben in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 2,282 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,127 babies named Korben.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 816 US boys were named Korben; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Corbin (41,777 babies since 1880), Korbin (9,517 babies since 1880), Korbyn (4,282 babies since 1880) and Corban (3,597 babies since 1880).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Korben in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——38#3,167
2024——47#2,773
2023——57#2,404
2022——69#2,145
2021——76#1,975
2020——90#1,726
2019——106#1,578
2018——109#1,550
2017——105#1,563
2016——119#1,454
2015——110#1,509
2014——127#1,354
2013——129#1,334
2012——116#1,436
2011——115#1,435
2010——91#1,694
2009——76#1,905
2008——97#1,616
2007——77#1,869
2006——62#2,118
2005——61#2,050
2004——79#1,642
2003——57#2,020
2002——61#1,857
2001——48#2,172
2000——43#2,278
1999——31#2,771
1998——37#2,372
1997——11#5,496
1996——8#6,850
1994——5#9,634
1993——6#8,210
1992——7#7,087
1990——7#6,846
1989——5#8,640

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).