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Cobert vs Cobie

American parents have registered 683 Cobies since 1880, against 13 Coberts. Cobie is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cobert Cobie

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 39 years in which either name was published, Cobie for 37 years and Cobert for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cobert Cobie
Total US births 13683
Most in one year 741
Babies in 2025 under 517
Estimated living today 3670
Median age today 8114
Peak year 19332001
Best rank 3,004th boys2,562nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19331972
Girls / boys 0 / 13278 / 405

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 Cobies are over 14. That is 67 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 Cobie.