girls:
87 births since 1976
#5629 (1st percentile)
boys:
5.9k births since 1958
#1538 (66th percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1958
#3505 (55th percentile)
The name Koby is the #3,505 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,981 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 54.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,538 (66.5% percentile) for all time with 5,894 births since 1958. For girls, it ranks #5,629 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 87 births since 1976.
Koby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Koby is available in 63 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 14 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 Koby has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 90.3% of babies named Koby were boys.
For boys, Koby reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 42.0% percentile (ranked #479) with 197 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 197 births per million (ranked 41.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Koby ranks #851 for boys (6.6% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Koby reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #894) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Koby is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #945 (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Koby".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Koby is pronounced as KOH-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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