Bobbette — girls' name

What the Data Says About Bobbette

The Social Security Administration has registered 667 babies named Bobbette between 1920 and 1977, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bobbette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1977. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 31 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bobbette performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 195 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Bobbette shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Bobbette in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bobbette in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 667 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.