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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Bobby

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#1,097

up +17 places

2025 births

195

up +3 births

All-time births

315,053

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1937
7,745 births
Best rank
#23
in 1934
First recorded
1900
#1,061 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1955
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
123 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19377,745#24Peak
  2. 19367,735#24
  3. 19357,726#24
  4. 19347,532#23
  5. 19387,498#27

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #23 in 1934 · peak births 7,745 in 1937

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 97% boys■ 3% girls

315,053 boys · 9,675 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 Bobby has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.