Korbin is an American spelling of Corbin, which comes from the Old French and Latin corvus and means "raven" or "little crow", originally a nickname for someone with dark hair. The K-spelling became common in the 2000s, when Corbin itself was riding high. In the United States Korbin ranked number 962 in 2000, peaked at number 512 in 2014 and has fallen back to number 1173 in 2025.