Bobbie
About 107,049 American babies have been named Bobbie since 1883, most of them around 1934. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,064th. About 60,000 Bobbies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bobbie boys named Bobbie
Girls and boys called Bobbie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 88,627 girls and 18,422 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 91 to 5.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 128 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 107,049
- Estimated living today
- 60,000
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1934
- Best rank
- 110th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,064th
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 88,627 / 18,422
How old the living Bobbies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 107,049 babies given the name since 1883, about 60,000 are alive — 56 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 29,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Bobbies
- Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904–1969)Canadian athletics competitor
- Bobbie Gentry (born 1942)American singer-songwriter
- Bobbie Eakes (born 1961)American actress
- Bobbie Singer (born 1981)Austrian singer
- Bobbie Phillips (born 1968)American actress
- Bobbie Heine Miller (1909–2016)South African Tennis player
- Bobbie van de Graaf (born 1944)Dutch rower
- Bobbie Traksel (born 1981)racing cyclist
People named Bobbie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bobbie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bobbie is most concentrated in Mississippi (6.6×), Arkansas (4.7×), Alabama (3.3×), Tennessee (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1934
The most popular girls’ names the year Bobbie peaked:
Bobbie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Bobbie | 1,628 | 520th |
| England and Wales boys | Bobbie | 696 | 704th |
| Scotland girls | Bobbie | 150 | 251st |
| Ireland boys | Bobbie | 34 | 516th |
| Belgium girls | Bobbie | 27 | 936th |
| Ireland girls | Bobbie | 25 | 736th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Bobbie | 12 | 238th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Bobbie | 10 | 358th |
| Scotland boys | Bobbie | 9 | 231st |
| France girls | Bobbie | 5 | 1,704th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Bobbie: rank by region
In 2025, Bobbie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Bobbie | 584 | 8 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Bobbie appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (204th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Bobbie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.