Corben
Masculine · “raven”
Corbin is a raven. The Norman French corbin named the bird and was given as a byname to men with black hair, and it became a surname in England and France alike. Corben is the American respelling, and the raven underneath is worth knowing about.
How old is the name Corben?
Corben first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Corben alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,600 people named Corben are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corben most popular?
Corben peaked in 2003, reaching #1781 nationally. Today it ranks #5208, 3,427 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From corvus to Corben
The story of Corben
Norman bynames from animals are all over English surnames, and birds were among the commonest: Corbin, Crowe, Peacock, Falconer. Corbin crossed the Channel with the Normans and then the Atlantic with English settlers, and it became an American first name in the twentieth century, rising in the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands. The -en spelling arrived with the popularity, in the same habit that produced Jaxen and Aiden alongside their older forms.
Meaning
raven; crow
Old French corbin, a raven or crow, from Latin corvus. Bynames from birds were common and usually descriptive: a raven meant dark hair or a dark complexion rather than anything ominous.
How the name formed
- corvus
- corbin
- Corbin
- Corben
Related forms: Corbin · Corbin
Pronouncing Corben
KOR-bin
Two syllables, stress in front. Corbin and Corben are said identically.
Nicknames for Corben
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 200775 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1781reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- +50.0%18 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Corben in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corbin in French — related form
- Corbin in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Illinois.
Corbens among us
people named Corben are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 94,893 born in 2025 was named Corben
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Corben
- #5208
- Corben on the 2025 chart
- #872
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Corben went to 18 boys in 2025, but Korben is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 56, which makes it the 872nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,336 places above the chart.
- Korben38
- Corben18
About 1 boy in 30,501 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,893 for Corben itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jemel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Corben's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jemel climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jemel's path sketches the road Corben is walking now.
Corben sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Corben beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Corben in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a bird anyone can picture and one with a good deal of story attached.
- Ben works as a short form and is one of the most comfortable names in English.
- Every sound is ordinary English, so nobody stumbles.
- Corbin is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected constantly.
- Corbin, Corben and Korbin are all in use and said identically.
- Ravens carry ominous associations in English literature that the original byname did not.
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Frequently asked
- How many Corbens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Corben are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Corben?
- Corben is one of 2 recorded spellings. Korben is the more common one — 38 births in 2025 against 18 for Corben.
- How popular is the name Corben in 2025?
- Corben ranks #5208 among US boy names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Corben?
- About 1 in every 94,893 US boys born in 2025 was named Corben — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Corben with classmates?
- Corben will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Corben
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