girls:
28 births since 1986
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
523 births since 1983
#4063 (11th percentile)
overall:
551 births since 1983
#7188 (7th percentile)
The name Colbey is the #7,188 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 551 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 7.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,063 (11.3% percentile) for all time with 523 births since 1983. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1986.
Colbey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Colbey is available in 33 out of the 34 years between 1983 and 2016 (32 years for boys and 5 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 Colbey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Colbey reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #779) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
For girls, Colbey reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #862) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colbey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Colbey is pronounced as KOHL-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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