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Cobey vs Cobina

American parents have registered 682 Cobeys since 1880, against 15 Cobinas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Cobey Cobina

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 48 years in which either name was published, Cobey for 46 years and Cobina for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cobey Cobina
Total US births 68215
Most in one year 508
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6607
Median age today 2484
Peak year 20011939
Best rank 2,086th boys3,145th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19721939
Girls / boys 0 / 68215 / 0

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 Cobinas alive today are over 84; half the Cobeys are over 24. That is 60 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: Cobey and Cobina.