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Corbin vs Corda

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 579 Cordas. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Corbin against Corda, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Corbin Corda

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Corbin for 111 years and Corda for 34 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Corbin Corda
Total US births 41,777579
Most in one year 1,94318
Babies in 2025 595under 5
Estimated living today 41,00030
Median age today 1671
Peak year 20141890
Best rank 203rd boys617th girls
Rank in 2025 512thunranked
First recorded 18911880
Girls / boys 665 / 41,112567 / 12

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cordas alive today are over 71; half the Corbins are over 16. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Corbin and Corda.