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 [ 2 syll. col-by, co-lby ] The boy name Colby is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is KOWLBiy KEY. Colby is used predominantly in the English language and its origin is Old English. The name is of the meaning coal town, Cola's town, Koli's town. From the elements 'kol' meaning coal, black ; 'býr' meaning village, farm. The first name is derived from an Old English surname, which is itself from an Old Norse place name of the meaning 'coal town', or else 'Cola's town' or 'Koli's town'. See Colby for more info. Cole (English), Coleby (English), and Kolby (English) are variants of Colby. See also the related form, Colton (English). Colby is popular as a baby name for boys. The name's popularity has been increasing since the 1960s; before that, it was of sporadic use only. At the modest height of its usage in 2001, 0.187% of baby boys were given the name Colby. Its ranking then was #99. In 2008, its usage was 0.058% and its ranking #273, and it was the 3rd most popular after Cole (English) and Colton (English), within all boy names in its group. In 2008, its use outnumbered Colby's by 4 times. Colby has in the past century been predominantly given to boys. Baby names that sound like Colby include Kolby (English), Caleb (English), Cliffie (English), Kaleb (Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew), Kalebh (English), Kalev (Hebrew), Keelby (English), Kelbie (English), Kelby (English), Khalif (Arabic), Cleve (English), Cliff (English), Clive (English), Clyve (English), Coleby (English), Kalb (Arabic), and Khalifa (Arabic). KEY: Pronunciation for Colby: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"   |
