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Corbin vs Cordae

American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 640 Cordaes. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Corbin Cordae

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

Corbin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Corbin had 1,359 and Cordae had 92.

Side by side

  Corbin Cordae
Total US births 41,777640
Most in one year 1,94392
Babies in 2025 59512
Estimated living today 41,000630
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20142008
Best rank 203rd boys1,665th boys
Rank in 2025 512th6,803rd
First recorded 18911988
Girls / boys 665 / 41,1125 / 635

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Corbin Cordae
England and Wales 4433

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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