girls:
3.2k births since 1983
#3067 (46th percentile)
boys:
367 births since 1986
#4219 (8th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1983
#4584 (41st percentile)
The name Colbie is the #4,584 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,562 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 40.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,067 (46.3% percentile) for all time with 3,195 births since 1983. For boys, it ranks #4,219 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 367 births since 1986.
Colbie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for girls and 1986 for boys). Birth data for Colbie is available in 40 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (40 years for girls and 33 years for boys). 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 Colbie has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 96.6% of babies named Colbie were girls.
For girls, Colbie reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 23.4% percentile (ranked #734) with 128 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 129 births per million (ranked 23.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Colbie is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #727 (23.3% percentile) with 129 births per million.
For boys, Colbie reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #857) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Colbie ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 32.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colbie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Colbie is pronounced as KOHL-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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