girls:
161 births since 1960
#5555 (3rd percentile)
boys:
5.5k births since 1941
#1611 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.6k births since 1941
#3620 (53rd percentile)
The name Tobin is the #3,620 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,647 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 53.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,611 (64.9% percentile) for all time with 5,486 births since 1941. For girls, it ranks #5,555 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 161 births since 1960.
Tobin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for boys and 1960 for girls). Birth data for Tobin is available in 79 out of the 83 years between 1941 and 2023 (79 years for boys and 17 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 Tobin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 89.5% of babies named Tobin were boys.
For boys, Tobin reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 18.5% percentile (ranked #538) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 81 births per million (ranked 17.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tobin ranks #865 for boys (5.1% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 34.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tobin reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #941) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Tobin ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 31.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tobin".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tobin is pronounced as TOH-bihn, which has 2 syllables.
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