girls:
68 births since 1956
#5648 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1939
#3440 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1939
#6508 (16th percentile)
The name Joby is the #6,508 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,232 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 15.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,440 (24.9% percentile) for all time with 1,164 births since 1939. For girls, it ranks #5,648 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 68 births since 1956.
Joby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (1939 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Joby is available in 73 out of the 85 years between 1939 and 2023 (73 years for boys and 11 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 Joby has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Joby reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #642) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Joby ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 17.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Joby reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #735) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joby".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Joby is pronounced as JOH-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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