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Korah vs Korbin

American parents have registered 9,517 Korbins since 1880, against 797 Korahs. Korbin is still ahead, with 186 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Korah against Korbin, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Korah Korbin

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 43 years in which either name was published, Korbin for 41 years and Korah for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Korah Korbin
Total US births 7979,517
Most in one year 49550
Babies in 2025 25186
Estimated living today 7909,400
Median age today 1012
Peak year 20182014
Best rank 3,245th girls511th boys
Rank in 2025 5,099th1,169th
First recorded 19771976
Girls / boys 797 / 0183 / 9,334

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 Korbins alive today are over 12; half the Korahs are over 10. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Korah Korbin
England and Wales 661

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: Korah and Korbin.