girls:
560 births since 1985
#5156 (10th percentile)
boys:
69 births since 1993
#4517 (1st percentile)
overall:
629 births since 1985
#7110 (8th percentile)
The name Colbi is the #7,110 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 629 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 8.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,156 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 560 births since 1985. For boys, it ranks #4,517 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1993.
Colbi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (1985 for girls and 1993 for boys).
The name Colbi has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Colbi were girls.
For girls, Colbi reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #924) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Colbi ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 67.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Colbi reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #812) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colbi".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Colbi is pronounced as KOHL-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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