as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from places in Norfolk and Cumbria, so called from the Old Norse personal name Koli (a byname for a swarthy person, from kol ‘(char)coal’) + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’. Use as a given name seems to have been influenced by the 1980s television serial The Colbys, a spinoff from Dynasty.
| 1,540th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,870
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 44,528
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Utah
- has the most people named Colby per capita
- 2001
- marked the height of its popularity
3%
97%
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55+
7%
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30-54
30%
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63%
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