# Koby (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/koby/  
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 | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,135 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,038 / 97 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,665, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | 11,017 |
| 1987 | 5 | 12,255 |
| 1999 | 5 | 15,712 |
| 2000 | 8 | 11,299 |
| 2001 | 8 | 11,557 |
| 2002 | 7 | 12,963 |
| 2003 | 5 | 17,143 |
| 2008 | 7 | 14,645 |
| 2016 | 7 | 13,668 |
| 2018 | 5 | 16,985 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,864 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,435 |
| 2022 | 5 | 16,602 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,842 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,566 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 130 | 1,313 |
| 2012 | 105 | 1,529 |
| 2013 | 114 | 1,453 |
| 2014 | 91 | 1,687 |
| 2015 | 109 | 1,519 |
| 2016 | 99 | 1,625 |
| 2017 | 97 | 1,638 |
| 2018 | 93 | 1,694 |
| 2019 | 85 | 1,810 |
| 2020 | 102 | 1,596 |
| 2021 | 85 | 1,830 |
| 2022 | 82 | 1,914 |
| 2023 | 65 | 2,208 |
| 2024 | 73 | 2,070 |
| 2025 | 66 | 2,174 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 67 | 524 |
| 2012 | 63 | 569 |
| 2013 | 63 | 565 |
| 2014 | 68 | 542 |
| 2015 | 90 | 450 |
| 2016 | 75 | 521 |
| 2017 | 100 | 429 |
| 2018 | 110 | 395 |
| 2019 | 95 | 429 |
| 2020 | 118 | 368 |
| 2021 | 119 | 375 |
| 2022 | 78 | 500 |
| 2023 | 98 | 406 |
| 2024 | 90 | 448 |
| 2025 | 60 | 621 |

## 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.