Korbin
Masculine · Latin roots · “little raven”
Korbin is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 9,334 boys against 183 girls since 1880.
Korbin is the K-spelled cousin of Corbin, a name that started life as a medieval nickname for the raven and traveled through Norman French surnames into American given names. It says itself on sight — two beats, stress up front, nothing to decode — and it sits in that small family of names, like Colton and Karsten, that sound both hard-edged and easy.
How old is the name Korbin?
Korbin first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Korbin alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 9,200 people named Korbin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Korbin most popular?
Korbin peaked in 2014, reaching #511 nationally. Today it ranks #1169, 658 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From corvus (Latin, 'raven') to Korbin
The story of Korbin
The word behind it is Latin corvus, raven, which softened in Old French to corb and corbin and got attached to people as a nickname. Normandy carried it into England after the eleventh century, where it settled as the hereditary surname Corbin — and, in the way of English surnames, it also stuck to places, including a town in Kentucky. American parents began using Corbin as a first name in the twentieth century, following the long habit of promoting surnames to the front of the name. Korbin is the K-spelled version of that same name, part of a broad late-century American taste for swapping C for K, and its footing is strongest across Texas, Tennessee and Missouri.
Meaning
little raven; raven-like
The root is Old French corb, corbin, from Latin corvus, 'raven, crow'. It began as a byname for someone dark-haired or dark-clothed, then hardened into a surname; the K spelling is a modern American respelling of the same word.
How the name formed
- corvusLatin, 'raven'
- corb / corbinOld French
- Corbinsurname
- Corbingiven name
- Korbin
Related forms: Corbin · Corbyn · Korben · Corben · Corbin
Pronouncing Korbin
KOR-bin
Two syllables, stress on the first, second syllable unstressed like the -bin in cabin. Identical to Corbin; the K changes nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Korbin
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
- 1976
- Most boys named
- 2014545 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #511reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −20.4%176 in 2025, from 221
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.
Korbin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corbin in English — spelling variant
- Corbyn in English — spelling variant
- Korben in English — spelling variant
- Corben in English — spelling variant
- Corbin in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Tennessee, Missouri.
Korbins among us
people named Korbin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 9,705 born in 2025 was named Korbin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Korbin
- #1169
- Korbin on the 2025 chart
- #340
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Korbin went to 176 boys in 2025, but Corbin, Korbyn and Corbyn are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 928, which makes it the 340th most-given boys’ name of the year — 829 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 1,841 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 9,705 for Korbin 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 Benito test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Korbin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Benito climbed just as high around 1929, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Benito's path sketches the road Korbin is walking now.
Korbin 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
Where Korbin is headed
Korbin is easing off slowly — about 18% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Korbin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Korbin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads correctly at first glance for English speakers — no pronunciation lesson required, ever.
- The Corbin form is long established as both surname and first name, so the sound is already familiar to most ears.
- A documented word history running from Latin corvus through Old French to Norman England.
- Short, two syllables, no silent letters, and it pairs cleanly with most one- and three-syllable middle names.
- Corbin is the older and better-known spelling, so expect to spell Korbin aloud regularly and to find it autocorrected or filed under C on forms.
- It is rare enough that a Korbin will likely be the only one in his school — welcome to some families, a little exposed for others.
- The name is easing back from its high point and clusters around one recent generation, so it will read as of its moment rather than as an heirloom.
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Frequently asked
- How many Korbins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,200 people named Korbin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Korbin?
- Korbin is one of 4 recorded spellings. Corbin is the more common one — 586 births in 2025 against 176 for Korbin.
- How popular is the name Korbin in 2025?
- Korbin ranks #1169 among US boy names in 2025, with 176 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Korbin?
- About 1 in every 9,705 US boys born in 2025 was named Korbin — 176 in all.
- Will my child share the name Korbin with classmates?
- Korbin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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