Cosby
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
212
peak year 1917
More common than
72%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1917
- 12 births
- Best rank
- #2,315
- in 1917
- First recorded
- 1914
- #2,710 that year
- Last recorded
- 1975
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1933
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 28 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 191712#2,315Peak
- 192512#2,465
- 192812#2,420
- 191910#2,714
- 193310#2,401
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #2,315 in 1917 · peak births 12 in 1917
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 90% boys■ 10% girls
212 boys · 23 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Cosby has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.