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Kolbey

Boy · KOHL-bee · English

Kolbey is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “farm of Koli”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).

What does Kolbey mean?

English: spelling of Colbey, itself a variant of Colby, an English place name from Old Norse Koli's by 'farm'

“farm of Koli”

Variant of Colby, an English place name and surname of Old Norse origin.

Say it
KOHL-bee

Meaning borrowed from Colbey.

Is Kolbey a girl's or a boy's name?

Kolbey is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kolbey in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,690among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 280,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Kolbey, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2009, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990.

2025 had more boys named Kolbey than any year since 2017.

Half of all the boys named Kolbey in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 258 boys in the US were given Kolbey or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #847, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.

1990Busiest: 18 in 20092025
Kolbey in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#10,690
20240–
20230–
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20176#10,770
20160–
20156#10,638
20145#12,102
20130–
20126#10,763
201112#6,572
20109#8,133
200918#5,100
200813#6,388
20076#10,915
20067#9,579
20058#8,292
200413#5,807
200315#5,030
200217#4,496
200111#6,006
20008#7,409
19996#8,697
199816#4,193
19975#9,259
19969#5,975
19957#6,985
19948#6,366
19936#7,631
19928#6,120
19917#6,511
19905#8,108

Names like Kolbey

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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