# Coby (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/coby/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Cobie |
| US babies named this | 9,865 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,484 / 381 (4% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,306, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 7 | 9,474 |
| 1989 | 8 | 8,917 |
| 1991 | 5 | 13,601 |
| 1997 | 5 | 14,208 |
| 1999 | 8 | 10,557 |
| 2000 | 10 | 9,314 |
| 2001 | 6 | 13,892 |
| 2005 | 6 | 14,894 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,238 |
| 2008 | 5 | 18,144 |
| 2009 | 5 | 17,926 |
| 2011 | 5 | 17,366 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,195 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,642 |
| 2021 | 6 | 13,869 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 169 | 1,097 |
| 2012 | 155 | 1,174 |
| 2013 | 149 | 1,206 |
| 2014 | 159 | 1,174 |
| 2015 | 125 | 1,383 |
| 2016 | 119 | 1,452 |
| 2017 | 105 | 1,556 |
| 2018 | 113 | 1,513 |
| 2019 | 137 | 1,329 |
| 2020 | 136 | 1,321 |
| 2021 | 133 | 1,379 |
| 2022 | 116 | 1,542 |
| 2023 | 120 | 1,491 |
| 2024 | 110 | 1,575 |
| 2025 | 84 | 1,874 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,683 |
| 1997 | 4 | 3,174 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 127 | 341 |
| 2012 | 133 | 332 |
| 2013 | 134 | 318 |
| 2014 | 152 | 301 |
| 2015 | 155 | 299 |
| 2016 | 157 | 308 |
| 2017 | 159 | 314 |
| 2018 | 154 | 308 |
| 2019 | 213 | 236 |
| 2020 | 201 | 239 |
| 2021 | 167 | 278 |
| 2022 | 146 | 308 |
| 2023 | 123 | 346 |
| 2024 | 130 | 336 |
| 2025 | 114 | 367 |

## People named Coby

- Coby Bell, American actor and producer
- Coby White, American basketball player (born 2000)
- Coby Miller, American athletics competitor (born 1976)
- Coby Karl, American basketball player and coach (born 1983)
- Coby Dietrick, American basketball player
- Coby Fleener, American football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.