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Korbin vs Kortez

American parents have registered 9,517 Korbins since 1880, against 816 Kortezes. Korbin is still ahead, with 186 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Korbin Kortez

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 46 years in which either name was published, Korbin for 41 years and Kortez for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Korbin Kortez
Total US births 9,517816
Most in one year 55036
Babies in 2025 18614
Estimated living today 9,400800
Median age today 1215
Peak year 20142020
Best rank 511th boys3,136th boys
Rank in 2025 1,169th6,143rd
First recorded 19761978
Girls / boys 183 / 9,3340 / 816

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 Kortezes alive today are over 15; half the Korbins are over 12. That is 3 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: Korbin and Kortez.