boys:
421 births since 1955
#4165 (9th percentile)
overall:
421 births since 1955
#7318 (5th percentile)
The name Hobie is the #7,318 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 421 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 5.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,165 (9.1% percentile) for all time with 421 births since 1955.
Hobie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (first recorded for boys in 1955). Birth data for Hobie is available in 44 out of the 69 years between 1955 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Hobie reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #751) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hobie ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 61.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hobie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hobie is pronounced as HOH-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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