Cobie

maleStatistical record

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

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

Cobie: Recorded since 1996, it reached #741 in 2020, and it stood at #773 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#741highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2002	#3409
2003	#3099
2005	#4798
2007	#4294
2012	#4838
2014	#5691
2015	#5730
2017	#4063
2018	#3985
2020	#4535
2022	#5669
2023	#4709

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2020: #741 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #766 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1765 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 #773 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Cobie appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 508 births with the name.

Cobie 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.

Cobie'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	#1765 (1996)	#766 (2020)	#773 (2024)	26 of 29	508 (1996–2024)	44 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3099 (2003)	#4709 (2023)	13 of 26	50 (1998–2023)	5 (2003)

Cobie 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 Cobie in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	2 of 10	5
2000s	94	9 of 10	10
2010s	224	10 of 10	22
2020sbusiest	180	5 of 10	36

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 36 births a year.

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

Cobie 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #741 in Republic of Ireland in 2020.

Cobie'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	#773	44	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#965	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#967	31	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#907	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#766	41	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#952	30	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1194	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1271	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1511	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1093	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#910	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1086	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1241	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1953	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1224	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1498	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #741, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 24 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.

Cobey · #1156, 23y
Cobi · #433, 29y
Coby · #213, 30y
Coco · #420, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Mickey · #741, 28y
Petar · #741, 24y
Darya · #742, 26y
Ilana · #742, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Mickey · #741, 28y
Petar · #741, 24y
Darya · #742, 26y
Efa · #742, 26y

Cobie was ranked #741 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2020. 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.

Cobie 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 Cobie without appearing here.

Cobie moved ahead of

Sander Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3134 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1224 and #3385.
Gustav Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1953 and #1828 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1358 and #3227.
Isak Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1578 and #1440 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1953 and #3687.
Helene Compare
In 2016 they stood at #5730 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #5765.

Moved ahead of Cobie

Teddy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3409 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1798.
Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4838 and #1893.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3099 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #2682.
Arlo Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #3134 and #1949.

Moved the opposite way to Cobie

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobie went from #1765 to #773 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobie went from #1765 to #773 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobie went from #1765 to #773 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobie went from #1765 to #773 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Cobie

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobie went from #1765 to #773 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobie went from #1765 to #773 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobie went from #1765 to #773 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cobie went from #1765 to #773 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #741 in Republic of Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cobie

Cobie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cobie across 2 official records

Cobie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cobie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Cobie at a glance

Cobie across 2 official records

Cobie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cobie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Cobie

Cobie and the names beside it

Cobie moved ahead of

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