Name meaning & stats
Colby
Colby means “coal farm”. 57,955 US babies since 1940, peak 2001.
What it means
“coal farm”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2001
57,955 US babies were named Colby between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Colby (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 80% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2001)