girls:
58 births since 1998
#5658 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1989
#3033 (34th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1989
#6032 (22nd percentile)
The name Kolbe is the #6,032 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,719 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 22.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,033 (33.8% percentile) for all time with 1,661 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,658 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 1998.
Kolbe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 1998 for girls).
The name Kolbe has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kolbe reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 11.8% percentile (ranked #728) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 49 births per million (ranked 11.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kolbe ranks #832 for boys (8.7% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 93.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kolbe reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #895) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% 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 "Kolbe".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kolbe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.3% confident that Kolbe is pronounced as KOHL-bee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kohlb, at 45.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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