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Corbyn

Corbyn is a boy's name that peaked in 2011, when it was the 1,025th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,258th. About 3,600 Corbyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Corbyn boys named Corbyn

Girls and boys called Corbyn

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 500 girls and 3,090 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 18 to 62.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 32 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
3,590
Estimated living today
3,600
Median age today
12
Peak year
2011
Best rank
1,025th
Rank in 2025
2,258th
First recorded
1987
Girls / boys
500 / 3,090

How old the living Corbyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,590 babies given the name since 1987, about 3,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Corbyn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Corbyn is most concentrated in Utah (6.1×), Oklahoma (4.1×), Indiana (4.0×), Texas (3.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2011

The most popular boys’ names the year Corbyn peaked:

All the names of 2011

Corbyn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Corbyn 275 1,206th
Scotland boys Corbyn 13 442nd
Northern Ireland boys Corbyn 7 342nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Corbyn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.