Kobe
Kobe is ranked 409th among boys in 2024 (787 births). Its best rank was 222nd, in 2001.
- Rank in 2024
- #409up 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7870.05% of boys
- Peak year
- 20011,552 births
- Best rank
- #222in 2001
- Since 1989
- 22,497people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,923 boys have been named Kobe in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 1,552 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 535 → 409).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2000s alone account for 42%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 574 girls have also been given it, 2.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2001, its biggest year
Kobe was the 222nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Kobe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cadepeak 2001
- Kolbepeak 2001
- Kobipeak 2000
- Crosspeak 2021
- Naseempeak 2000
- Dawsonpeak 1999
- Quadirpeak 2002
- Paceypeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.