Coby

What Coby means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Coby yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2001, with 516 babies; 84 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Coby?

US: Falling: down from #1381 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #299 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2001, when 516 boys got the name (#462 that year). First in the US records in 1941.

How common

• About 1 in 20,334 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,385 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CO (0.22 per 1,000 boys), GA (0.12 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.08 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Coby is #1867 in the US and #367 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Coby were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kobi59 US · 72 E&W
• Koby66 US · 60 E&W
• Cobi11 US · 6 E&W
• Kobey9 US · 5 E&W
• Koba6 US
• Cobey0 US · 4 E&W
• Kobby0 US · 4 E&W
• Cuba0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Cobie

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Coby

Boys

• Cameron#76“crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Samuel#18“God has set or God has placed”^*
• Alejandro#195“defender of man”^*
• Nathaniel#140“God has given”^*
• Javier#274Spanish, from Basque Xabier, meaning “the new house”^*
• Nicolas#177Variant of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*

For a sister

• Julia#131Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2001, with 8,838 babies; 2,172 in 2025
• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Madison#40Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies
• Hannah#56“grace, gracious, graced with child”^*
• Madeline#81Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #81 vs #304 in 2025
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Coby’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.