How Many People Are Named Coby?
people named Coby are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 36,022 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,865 babies named Coby in Social Security records from 1941 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
522 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Masculine or feminine diminutive of JACOB.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Coby in English. Counting Coby and these spellings together, about 15,483 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Coby, 3.7% were girls and 96.3% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Coby fell from 30.1% in the 1950s to 1.5% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Coby alive today is about 26 years old, and 68% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 34 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Coby first appears in the records in 1941 and was given most often in 2001, to 522 babies. In 2025, 84 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1941 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Coby has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #462, in 2001. In 2025 it ranked #1,874.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,874 |
| Best rank | #462 (2001) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #658 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Coby alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Coby were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,373 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Coby was given 4.5 times as often in Louisiana, 2.8 times in Oklahoma and 2.5 times in Utah.
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