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Corbin vs Corgan

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 131 Corgans. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Corbin against Corgan, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Corbin Corgan

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

Corbin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Corbin had 571 and Corgan had 11.

Side by side

  Corbin Corgan
Total US births 41,777131
Most in one year 1,94315
Babies in 2025 595under 5
Estimated living today 41,000130
Median age today 1621
Peak year 20142007
Best rank 203rd boys5,661st boys
Rank in 2025 512thunranked
First recorded 18911997
Girls / boys 665 / 41,1120 / 131

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 Corgans alive today are over 21; half the Corbins are over 16. That is 5 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: Corbin and Corgan.