Tobey
Tobey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200385 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1924
- 2,448people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,690 boys have been named Tobey in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 85 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 2000s alone account for 29%.
Tobey is used for both sexes: 31% of its bearers are girls (758), most of them born around 1975.
By decade
In 2003, its biggest year
Tobey was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Tobey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kenyonpeak 2005
- Taitpeak 2007
- Iranpeak 1978
- Dameonpeak 1977
- Tobypeak 1975
- Tobinpeak 2013
- Dathanpeak 2005
- Demetriospeak 1974
Other spellings in the data
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.