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Kolby vs Kollyns

American parents have registered 13,001 Kolbys since 1880, against 1,376 Kollynses. But in 2025 it was Kollyns that was commoner, 293 babies to 207.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kolby against Kollyns, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kolby Kollyns

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 56 years in which either name was published, Kolby for 53 years and Kollyns for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kolby Kollyns
Total US births 13,0011,376
Most in one year 781293
Babies in 2025 207293
Estimated living today 13,0001,400
Median age today 212
Peak year 20012025
Best rank 359th boys904th girls
Rank in 2025 1,222nd904th
First recorded 19682010
Girls / boys 1,351 / 11,6501,376 / 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 Kolbys alive today are over 21; half the Kollynses are over 2. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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