Bobette
Bobette is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195455 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1915
- 1,464people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,464 girls have been named Bobette in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 55 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 55 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1950s alone account for 29%.
By decade
In 1954, its biggest year
Bobette was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1954 were Mary, Linda, Deborah, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Bobette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Noreenpeak 1948
- Rhonapeak 1951
- Mariellenpeak 1958
- Arnettepeak 1959
- Donnapeak 1959
- Merrypeak 1954
- Merriepeak 1959
- Bunnypeak 1957
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.