Corbin
Feminine · “Old French corbin”
Corbin is given to boys far more often — 41,112 boys against 665 girls since 1880. See Corbin as a boy name
Corbin means a raven, and ravens carry more legend than almost any bird. One of the best known, that Britain will fall if the ravens leave the Tower of London, is not recorded before the late nineteenth century and appears to have been invented for visitors.
How old is the name Corbin?
Corbin first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Corbin alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 700 people named Corbin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Corbin most popular?
Corbin peaked in 1995, reaching #3152 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 6,955 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
From corvus to Corbin
The story of Corbin
The Tower ravens are the most famous birds in Britain and the story attached to them is young. The prophecy about the kingdom falling if they leave is absent from every early account of the Tower, appears first in print towards the end of the nineteenth century, and looks like a piece of Victorian atmosphere that hardened into tradition; the birds themselves were probably not resident before then either. The raven's older reputation is genuinely deep: Odin's two ravens report to him on the world, the Welsh Bran the Blessed is a raven, and the bird's habit of following armies made it a battlefield omen across northern Europe. Corbin and Corbett both preserve the word as a nickname turned surname, and the American given name comes from that surname rather than from the bird.
Meaning
Old French corbin, a raven
From Old French corbin, a little crow or raven, from Latin corvus. It began as a nickname, presumably for dark hair or coloring, and became a surname. The name is overwhelmingly male in American use; the small female peak is 1995.
How the name formed
- corvus
- corbin
- Corbin
Related forms: Corbin · Corbett
Pronouncing Corbin
KOR-bin
Two syllables, stress on the first. The French original has the stress at the end and a nasal final vowel.
Nicknames for Corbin
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
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 199536 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3152reached in 1995
- Change vs 2023
- −43.8%9 in 2025, from 16
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.
Corbin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corbin in French — same name
- Corbett in English — related form
Corbins among us
people named Corbin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Corbin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Corbin
- #10107
- Corbin on the 2025 chart
- #893
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Corbin went to 9 girls in 2025, but Korbyn, Corbyn and Korbin are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 67, which makes it the 893rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,214 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 23,989 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Corbin 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 Verdene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Corbin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Verdene climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Verdene's path sketches the road Corbin is walking now.
Corbin 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
Corbin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Corbin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two syllables and six letters, spelled as heard.
- The meaning is concrete and documented.
- Corby works as a short form.
- The name is used overwhelmingly for boys.
- It will be heard as Corbyn or Corrine.
- The 1995 female peak is small and brief.
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Frequently asked
- How many Corbins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Corbin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Corbin?
- Corbin is one of 4 recorded spellings. Korbyn is the more common one — 30 births in 2025 against 9 for Corbin.
- How popular is the name Corbin in 2025?
- Corbin ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Corbin?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Corbin — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Corbin with classmates?
- Corbin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Corbin
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