Given name & surname
Cobee
“the supplanter”·“he who supplants”
Cobee is a variant of Coby. In Hebrew use, Coby carries the interpretation “the supplanter.” In English use, Coby carries the interpretation “he who supplants.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cobee is a variant of Coby. In Hebrew use, Coby carries the interpretation “the supplanter.” In English use, Coby carries the interpretation “he who supplants.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Cobee connects to the Jacob name family through Coby. Jacob is the English and Dutch form of the Hebrew Yaakov. James belongs to the same older name family, despite looking quite different in English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Cobee connects to the Jacob name family through Coby. The shared background comes through Jacob: The link with Hebrew akev, “heel,” comes from Genesis 25:26: Jacob is born holding his older twin Esau’s heel. In Genesis 27:36, Esau connects the name with being supplanted after Jacob gains his birthright and their father’s blessing. These episodes explain the traditional meanings; they do not settle how the name first arose.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Cobee connects to the Jacob name family through Coby. The history of Jacob gives this family its wider story. In Genesis, Jacob is the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of twelve sons associated with the twelve tribes of Israel. His name has a long history in Jewish and Christian communities. The related name James developed through a different Late Latin form, Iacomus, eventually becoming distinct from Jacob in English.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Cobee through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 30 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cobee’s family of names
Cobee has a related form in Coby. In English usage, Cobee as a surname was borrowed from the French form Cobée.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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