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Colby
Pronounced /ˈkəʊl.bi/
Rank in 2024
#3,248
Born in 2024
49
Peak year
1992 · #1144
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:489 in 2024 (#581)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 49 girls were named Colby, about 1 in every 32,922.
- It peaked in 1992 with 155 babies, ranked #1144.
- It first shows up in the records in 1950.
- 4,123 girls have been named Colby since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Colby per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 83 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 362 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,769 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,345 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 564 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From either the Old Norse personal name Koli or kol (“charcoal”) + býr (“settlement”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkəʊl.bi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Colby, CC BY-SA 4.0.