Cobe
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.
Cobe by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Cobe. In the US, 7 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 61 babies in 2001, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Cobe
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cobe. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Coledark, swarthy; charcoal3,458 in the US (2017)
- Cobysupplanter; a form of Jacob114 in England and Wales (2025)
- Covesmall bay or inlet87 in England and Wales (2025)
- Copeto buy or bargain; occupational or topographic name8 in the US (2017)
- Cobi6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cobie25 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Cobe
Names that are said the same way as Cobe, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Kobe112 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Cobe
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