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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Tobe

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

949

peak year 1916

More common than

88%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1916
20 births
Best rank
#440
in 1881
First recorded
1880
#479 that year
Last recorded
2022
no later published record
Average birth year
1935
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
103 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191620#1,640Peak
  2. 191819#1,818
  3. 191919#1,804
  4. 188217#448
  5. 191317#1,308

Rank over time

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

Best rank #440 in 1881 · peak births 20 in 1916

Boys and girls

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

● 97% boys■ 3% girls

949 boys · 29 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 Tobe has ranked, decade by decade

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