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Koby

Meaning
Supplanter, holder of the heel
Origin
Hebrew — Short form of Jacob

Boy's name · #2174 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

Popularity over time

Koby's best rank, #533, came in 2000; it has settled back to #2174 today. Roughly 6,000 boys have been named Koby since 1958.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 5 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#495 in Scotland (2025) · #509 in Ireland (2025) · #621 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,642 in Canada (2025) · #2,715 in Austria (2025) · #404 in N. Ireland (2024) · #2,159 in Sweden (2024) · #396 in New Zealand (2023) · #1,391 in Belgium (2020) · #5,184 in France (2020) · #7,394 in Ecuador (2017) · #861 in Slovakia (2013) and 1 more.

Famous Kobys

In stories & tradition

What Kobys become

Among 27 notable people named Koby:

Sports figures appear 2.65× more often than among typical names — e.g. Koby Brea, Dominican-American basketball player (born 2002).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Coby (#1874) and Kobi (#2341), Koby would rank around #1051 with about 210 births last year — the newborns split about 40/32/28 across Coby, Koby, and Kobi.

Similar names: Kobi · Maximillian · Kobe · Robbie · Mykel · Jakobi

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