Koby
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Origin unidentified
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Koby is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 52Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 200K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Koby itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
15,211 named Kobe, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled קובי in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Origin unidentified.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Koby, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Koby counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 15,211as Kobe | 1 in 22K | 15K | Koby | 303 |
| IL Israel | #420 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 1.3K | קובי | 85 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 106 | Koby | 92 |
| GH Ghana | #759 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Koby | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 603as Coby | 1 in 29K | 582 | Koby | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 34as Kobe | 1 in 22K | 34 | — | 2 |
15,211 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kobe. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Koby Israeliteb. 1966ILIsraeli musician
- Koby Falksb. 1982AUAustralian pornographic actor (1982–2025)
- Koby Arthurb. 1996GHGhanaian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Koby mean, and where does it come from?
- Origin unidentified. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Koby?
- In the etymology graph, James, Jay and Jaime are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Koby?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Kobe, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Israel, Australia, Ghana and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Koby a male or female name?
- Koby is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Australia (NSW BDM, 2011).
- How common is the name Koby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,211 people named Kobe in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Koby compared with other names?
- In Israel, Koby is the 420th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Koby?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kobyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Koby” — the 420th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.