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Cobert vs Cobi

American parents have registered 949 Cobis since 1880, against 13 Coberts. Cobi is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cobert against Cobi, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cobert Cobi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 42 years in which either name was published, Cobi for 40 years and Cobert for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cobert Cobi
Total US births 13949
Most in one year 747
Babies in 2025 under 522
Estimated living today 3930
Median age today 8118
Peak year 19331999
Best rank 3,004th boys2,462nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,194th
First recorded 19331968
Girls / boys 0 / 13265 / 684

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Coberts alive today are over 81; half the Cobis are over 18. That is 63 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cobert and Cobi.