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)
The name Bobby is the #232 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 324,299 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 97.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #107 (97.7% percentile) for all time with 314,645 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #1,637 (71.4% percentile) for all time with 9,654 births since 1900.
Bobby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 . Birth data for Bobby is available in 122 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 110 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bobby has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bobby reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 95.8% percentile (ranked #23) with 7,091 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 7,269 births per million (ranked 95.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1961, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bobby ranks #749 for boys (17.8% percentile) with 91 births per million, which is 1.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bobby reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 37.7% percentile (ranked #370) with 225 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 248 births per million (ranked 37.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bobby".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Bobby is pronounced as BAH-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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