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Colby
Pronounced /ˈkəʊl.bi/
Rank in 2024
#581
Born in 2024
489
Peak year
2001 · #99
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:49 in 2024 (#3,248)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 489 boys were named Colby, about 1 in every 3,508.
- It peaked in 2001 with 3,859 babies, ranked #99.
- It first shows up in the records in 1888.
- 53,512 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.8Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 108 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 150 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 460 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,286 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Millennials: 16,523 babies, 0.54 per 1,000. Gen Z: 26,643 babies, 0.85 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,337 babies, 0.29 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.