Kolbe
A boys’ name of English origin, meaning dark settlement; a modern respelling of Colby.
Kolbe by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Kolbe. In the US, 53 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 the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 102 babies in 2001, making it a 2000s name.
Other names that come from Colby
Like Kolbe, each of these traces back to Colby: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kolbe. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean darkness
Like Kolbe, each of these has darkness in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Adrianfrom Hadria; dark one6,317 in the US (2017)
- Coltondark settlement; coal town5,261 in the US (2017)
- Blakedark or pale3,782 in the US (2017)
- Coledark, swarthy; charcoal3,458 in the US (2017)
- Blakelydark or pale meadow; a place name used as personal name1,244 in the US (2017)
- Donovandark brown warrior; surname used as given name1,056 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kolbe
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