Baby name

REVIVING BOY · JAPANESE/SWAHILI
🇯🇵, 🇰🇪, 🇹🇿,  +1

Kobe

/KOH-bee/


“Multiple origins: Hebrew (supplanter), Swahili (tortoise), Akan (Tuesday born)”

A name with multiple origins: a diminutive of Jacob (Hebrew), a Japanese place name, a Swahili word for tortoise, and an Akan name for a Tuesday-born male.

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How it ages.

Kobe brings a familiar foundation together with renewed contemporary appeal.

The cultural moment.

Interest in Kobe is returning gradually in Scotland, giving the name fresh visibility.