Korbyn
Feminine · “little raven or crow”
Korbyn is given to both — 778 girls and 3,504 boys since 1880. See Korbyn as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Korbyn respells Corbin, a French byname meaning a little crow — and crows were named for the sound they make.
How old is the name Korbyn?
Korbyn first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Korbyn is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Korbyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Korbyn most popular?
Korbyn peaked in 2015, reaching #3024 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 1,522 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Korbyn
Ours, offered as ours. The bird names in this family are all the bird's own voice written down: Latin corvus, Greek korax, English crow and croak, Sanskrit karava. Half the world's languages named this bird by imitating it, independently, because the call is so distinctive. A medieval Frenchman nicknamed Corbin was being called dark-haired or sharp — and the word doing it was, at bottom, a noise.
Meaning
little raven or crow
From French corbin, from Latin corvus, a raven, with a diminutive; corvus is itself imitative of the bird's call, as are the Greek korax and the English croak and crow.
Pronouncing Korbyn
KOR-bin
Two syllables, first stressed. Korbyn and Corbin are said identically.
Nicknames for Korbyn
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
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 201556 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3024reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%30 in 2025, from 30
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.
Korbyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Corbin in French — related form
- Corbyn in English — spelling variant
- Corvus in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Alabama, Louisiana.
Korbyns among us
people named Korbyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Korbyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Korbyn
- #4546
- Korbyn on the 2025 chart
- #893
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Korbyn went to 30 girls in 2025, but Corbyn, Korbin and Corbin 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 — 3,653 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 23,989 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,576 for Korbyn 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 Anella test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Korbyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anella climbed just as high around 1918, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anella's path sketches the road Korbyn is walking now.
Korbyn 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 Korbyn is headed
Korbyn should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Korbyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Korbyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely good piece of sound history behind it.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Corbin is the standard spelling and much more common.
- It is used more often for boys, so forms may guess wrong.
- The K and y are both substitutions and will be spelled out constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Korbyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Korbyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Korbyn?
- Korbyn is the most-used spelling in US records — 30 of the 67 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Corbyn, Korbin and Corbin.
- How popular is the name Korbyn in 2025?
- Korbyn ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Korbyn?
- About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Korbyn — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Korbyn with classmates?
- Korbyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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