Bobby
Bobby is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 189 births. Its best rank was 23rd, in 1934.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1890.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19377,745 births
- Best rank
- #23in 1934
- Since 1900
- 324,511people given the name
The story in the numbers
314,848 boys have been named Bobby in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1937, with 7,745 births — 0.73% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 189 births in 2024, against 7,745 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1930s alone account for 22%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 50 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 9,663 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bobby | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 53 | |
| 1910s | 411 | |
| 1920s | 13,879 | |
| 1930s | 69,416 | |
| 1940s | 58,890 | |
| 1950s | 53,282 | |
| 1960s | 46,388 | |
| 1970s | 29,078 | |
| 1980s | 22,025 | |
| 1990s | 11,384 | |
| 2000s | 5,708 | |
| 2010s | 3,279 | |
| 2020s | 1,055 |
In 1937, its biggest year
Bobby was the 24th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1937 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1937.
Names that rose and fell with Bobby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Billypeak 1934
- Duwaynepeak 1960
- Buddypeak 1935
- Jerrepeak 1942
- Jerepeak 1941
- Jeroldpeak 1942
- Geroldpeak 1939
- Gearldpeak 1941
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.