Bobby

girls:

9.7k births since 1900

#1637 (71st percentile)

boys:

314.6k births since 1900

#107 (98th percentile)

overall:

324.3k births since 1900

#232 (97th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bobby".

1900 2023 19002023

Key Statistics

Total Births
9,654
Peak Births
262
Peak Year
1930
First Recorded
1900
Peak Percentile
37.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#326
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
314,645
Peak Births
7,745
Peak Year
1934
First Recorded
1900
Peak Percentile
95.8%
Current Percentile
17.8%
Peak Rank
#23
Current Rank
#749
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Bobby

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bobby. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Bobby is pronounced as BAH-bee.

2
100.0%
BAH-bee (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
B AA1 B IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Bobby. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Bobby, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BAW-bee (2 syllables)
1 name 24.1k births
B AO1 B IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

BAHR-bee (2 syllables)
5 names 5k births
B AA1 R B IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B AA1 B IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.