Corbin
- Pronunciation
- [Cor-bin]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Raven-Haired.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Corbin
Corbin descends from the Old French corbin meaning "raven" or "crow" — referring originally to people with raven-black hair, from the Latin corvus (the same root that produces the English word "crow"). The surname identified medieval English families with dark hair.
The name's transition from surname to American first name is essentially a late-20th- and 21st-century phenomenon. The single most influential modern American bearer is American actor Corbin Bleu (born 1989, Chad Danforth in Disney's High School Musical trilogy, 2006–2008), whose career through the millennial-Disney-era cultural moment anchored the name in 2000s American naming.
Corbin's American climb is recent and substantial: the name climbed from outside the US top 500 in 1995 to the US top 200 boys' rank by 2008 and the top 200 since. The name has been used predominantly for boys but has occasional girls' usage. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the surname-style sophistication, the in-built raven/dark imagery, and the popular two-syllable -bin ending family. Two firm syllables, hard consonants, and tonal versatility from rural-Americana to upwardly-mobile-American. The name reads as both classical-medieval and contemporary American. Common nicknames are scarce since the name is already short — Cor and the rare Bin each occasionally appear; the alternate spellings Korbin and Corben have their own SSA tracking. International forms include the original French corbin and the related Italian corvus.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Corbin
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Corbin by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2014 with 1,930 boys named Corbin (boy rank #203 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #512 for boys (586 US births). That's 309 places below its 2014 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Corbin Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Corbin the strongest states are Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyoming | #80 | 27 |
| 2 | Vermont | #113 | 17 |
| 3 | Alaska | #139 | 22 |
| 4 | Maine | #171 | 24 |
| 5 | Montana | #181 | 47 |
| 6 | Kentucky | #194 | 283 |
| 7 | South Dakota | #197 | 56 |
| 8 | North Dakota | #203 | 53 |
| 9 | Mississippi | #204 | 162 |
| 10 | New Hampshire | #211 | 41 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Jersey | #781 | 39 |
| 2 | California | #686 | 399 |
| 3 | New York | #657 | 198 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | #617 | 51 |
| 5 | Maryland | #475 | 103 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | #455 | 219 |
| 7 | Illinois | #429 | 249 |
| 8 | Texas | #396 | 870 |
| 9 | Nevada | #386 | 40 |
| 10 | Connecticut | #383 | 20 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Corbin in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cory | Hill: Hollow. | Male | English |
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Compare Corbin to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Corbin against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).