girls:
12 births since 1956
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
94 births since 1970
#4492 (2nd percentile)
overall:
106 births since 1956
#7633 (1st percentile)
The name Korby is the #7,633 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 106 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,492 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1956.
Korby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Korby is available in 17 out of the 45 years between 1956 and 2000 (15 years for boys and 2 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 Korby has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2000, 100.0% of babies named Korby were boys. Interestingly, until around 1970, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1956 to 1969), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (94.0% boys from 1970 to 2000).
For boys, Korby reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #662) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
For girls, Korby reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #745) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1974.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Korby".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Korby is pronounced as KOR-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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