Bob
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#9,845
up +204 places
2025 births
7
unchanged births
All-time births
92,986
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1959
- 2,826 births
- Best rank
- #75
- in 1934
- First recorded
- 1880
- #244 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1943
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19592,826#128Peak
- 19602,719#131
- 19582,518#139
- 19472,514#115
- 19612,504#141
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #75 in 1934 · peak births 2,826 in 1959
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
92,986 boys · 322 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Bob has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.