Cobi

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cobi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cobi: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #433 in 2021, and it stood at #727 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#433highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2008

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#3860

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #1595 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1104 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1595 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Cobi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 343 births with the name.

Cobi across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cobi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1104 (1996)	#1104 (1996)	#1595 (2024)	29 of 29	343 (1996–2024)	21 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#710 (2017)	#646 (2019)	#646 (2019)	2 of 3	7 (2017–2019)	4 (2019)

Cobi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cobi in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	29	4 of 10	7
2000s	110	10 of 10	11
2010sbusiest	137	10 of 10	14
2020s	67	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Cobi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #433 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Cobi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1595	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2007	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2018	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1860	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1431	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1235	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1627	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2027	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1339	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1801	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1242	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1534	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1128	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1104	12	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #433, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Coben · #1507, 22y
Cobey · #1156, 23y
Cobie · #741, 27y
Coby · #213, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Arielle · #434, 29y
Zaira · #432, 30y
Arina · #435, 24y
Daisy-Mae · #439, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ash · #433, 28y
Brodi · #433, 21y
Jadon · #433, 28y
Kash · #433, 19y

Cobi was ranked #433 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cobi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cobi without appearing here.

Cobi moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2007 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #5119.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2018 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2007 and #4107.
Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2587 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1128 and #3225.
Grant Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2104 and #1869 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1431 and #3334.

Moved ahead of Cobi

Magnus Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1104 and #1337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2337 and #1113.
Markus Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1104 and #1337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2337 and #1113.
Aksel Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1235 and #1382 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2104 and #1253.
Ronny Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1629 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1732 and #906.

Moved the opposite way to Cobi

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobi went from #1104 to #1595 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobi went from #1104 to #1595 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobi went from #1104 to #1595 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobi went from #1104 to #1595 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Cobi

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobi went from #1104 to #1595 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobi went from #1104 to #1595 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobi went from #1104 to #1595 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobi went from #1104 to #1595 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #433 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cobi

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cobi across 2 official records

Cobi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Cobi across 2 official records

Cobi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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