Kolbe
Kolbe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 81 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 810.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2001102 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1989
- 1,801people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,743 boys have been named Kolbe in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 102 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2000s alone account for 35%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 58 girls have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
By decade
In 2001, its biggest year
Kolbe was outside the top 1,000 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 Kolbe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dawsonpeak 1999
- Kobipeak 2000
- Crosspeak 2021
- Tahjpeak 1998
- Kadepeak 2024
- Canyonpeak 2021
- Ibrahimapeak 2002
- Eoinpeak 2020
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.