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Korbin vs Kortnie

American parents have registered 9,517 Korbins since 1880, against 767 Kortnies. Korbin is still ahead, with 186 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Korbin Kortnie

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 48 years in which either name was published, Korbin for 35 years and Kortnie for 13 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Korbin Kortnie
Total US births 9,517767
Most in one year 55058
Babies in 2025 186under 5
Estimated living today 9,400750
Median age today 1231
Peak year 20141993
Best rank 511th boys2,241st girls
Rank in 2025 1,169thunranked
First recorded 19761978
Girls / boys 183 / 9,334767 / 0

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 Kortnies alive today are over 31; half the Korbins are over 12. That is 19 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 Kortnie.