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Cobi vs Cobina

American parents have registered 949 Cobis since 1880, against 15 Cobinas. Cobi is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

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

Side by side

  Cobi Cobina
Total US births 94915
Most in one year 478
Babies in 2025 22under 5
Estimated living today 9307
Median age today 1884
Peak year 19991939
Best rank 2,462nd boys3,145th girls
Rank in 2025 7,194thunranked
First recorded 19681939
Girls / boys 265 / 68415 / 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 Cobis are over 18. That is 66 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: Cobi and Cobina.