Coby ranks at #640 with 192 entries, registered male. The name is a friendly modern American spelling variant (often a diminutive of Jacob or a shortening of Cobe), with a clean two-syllable shape and an owner-base that uses it as a casual-buddy register rather than anything formal.
The diminutive-as-full-name cohort
Coby sits with Toby, Kobe, and Jakey in the diminutive-or-shortened-form-as-the-full-name pet pocket. These are names that owners use as the registered name from the start, refusing the more formal Jacob or Tobias version. The naming logic refuses formality and signals a casual household register from day one.
The Kobe Bryant overlay note
Coby as a spelling overlaps phonetically with Kobe (the basketball player who died in 2020 and the Japanese city), and a slice of registry Cobys are likely Kobe-the-player references where owners chose a softer spelling. The two names sit very close in pet culture, with Coby carrying slightly more Anglo-naming register and Kobe carrying the more direct sports-and-place reference.
Sound and breed lean
Two syllables, front-stressed (KOH-bee), open vowel opening and soft trailing -ee. The shape recalls cleanly across distance and works in noisy yards. The name lands disproportionately on medium-sized friendly breeds: Labradors, Golden Retrievers, Cocker Spaniels, and family mixed-breeds. The human Coby page shows modest modern SSA presence; pet Coby tracks alongside without crowding.