girls:
381 births since 1946
#5335 (7th percentile)
boys:
9.3k births since 1941
#1224 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.7k births since 1941
#2733 (65th percentile)
The name Coby is the #2,733 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,668 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 64.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,224 (73.3% percentile) for all time with 9,287 births since 1941. For girls, it ranks #5,335 (6.6% percentile) for all time with 381 births since 1946.
Coby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Coby is available in 79 out of the 83 years between 1941 and 2023 (77 years for boys and 45 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Coby has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Coby reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 47.9% percentile (ranked #430) with 249 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 249 births per million (ranked 47.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Coby ranks #798 for boys (12.4% percentile) with 64 births per million, which is 25.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Coby reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #729) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Coby".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Coby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Coby is pronounced as KOH-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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