Corbin vs Cortez
American parents have registered 41,777 Corbins since 1880, against 10,988 Cortezes. Corbin is still ahead, with 595 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Corbin Cortez
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 120 years in which either name was published, Corbin for 65 years and Cortez for 55 years. The lead changed hands 29 times.
- 1891–1901 Corbin ahead
- 1909–1919 Cortez ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1920–1922 Corbin ahead
- 1928–1939 Cortez ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1940–1943 Corbin ahead
- 1944–1967 Cortez ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1968–1970 Corbin ahead
- 1973–1986 Cortez ahead
- 1987–2025 Corbin ahead
17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Corbin | Cortez | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 41,777 | 10,988 |
| Most in one year | 1,943 | 351 |
| Babies in 2025 | 595 | 101 |
| Estimated living today | 41,000 | 10,000 |
| Median age today | 16 | 28 |
| Peak year | 2014 | 1990 |
| Best rank | 203rd boys | 532nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 512th | 1,654th |
| First recorded | 1891 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 665 / 41,112 | 89 / 10,899 |
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 Cortezes alive today are over 28; half the Corbins are over 16. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Corbin Utah (4.3×), Idaho (2.8×), Kansas (2.3×)
- Cortez Missouri (4.2×), Mississippi (3.7×), Tennessee (3.6×)
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 | Cortez |
|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 443 | 37 |
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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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Corbin and Cortez.