Kolby
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling or variant of German Kolbe, a variant of Kolb
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/koʊɫbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolby is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Americanized spelling or variant of German Kolbe, a variant of Kolb.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolby counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9.4K | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 195 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 144 | — |
| CA Canada | — | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5 | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present). 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)
- Kolby LaCroneb. 1986USAmerican soccer player
- Kolby Hurtb. 1988football player (born 1988)
- Kolby Allardb. 1997USAmerican baseball player
- Kolby Carlileb. 1997USAmerican motorcycle racer
- Kolby Leeb. 1998USbasketball player
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kolby mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling or variant of German Kolbe, a variant of Kolb. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Kolby a male or female name?
- Kolby is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kolby have the most bearers?
- Kolby is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- How do you pronounce Kolby?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊɫbi/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Kolby?
- In the etymology graph, Colby is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Kolby?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolbyThe 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, “Kolby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.