New parents across the U.S. are honoring Kobe and Gianna Bryant in a BIG way ... experts say babies with the names "Kobe" and "Gianna" have risen dramatically in 2020.
According to BabyCenter, there's been a huge increase in newborns with the names since the NBA legend and his daughter tragically died in a helicopter crash in January.
Per the site -- which gets its data from over 500,000 new babies that were registered to the site this year -- "Kobe" vaulted from #595 on the list in 2019 to #216 in 2020.