first name
BOBBY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 163,860 people named Bobby, 67.3% reported their origin as White, 21.5% as Black and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 97.2% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Bobby peaked in 1935, when 7,971 babies got the name.
At least 324,728 babies have been given the name since 1900. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Bobby by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #54. The largest share of babies named Bobby, 35.8%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Bobby is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Bobby has been most common in Arkansas (4.5×), Mississippi (3.6×), and Oklahoma (3.5×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.04×).
318,373 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Bobby
Spelled almost the same
5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Bobby, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Bobby ranks #24,318 of 156,621, with 1,073 people. See Bobby as a last name
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