Bobbi
Bobbi was given to 109 girls in 2025, #1,834 among girls’ names; 24,280 Americans have been recorded with it since 1932 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,200 Americans named Bobbi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 40 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bobbi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bobbi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bobbi is “a diminutive of the female given name Roberta.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bobbi?
#1,834 among girls’ names, 2025
Bobbi rose from #2,624 in 2015 to #1,834 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 38.1 to 67.8 per million.
853 babies in 1971, the peak
Bobbi peaked in 1971, when 853 babies were given it (844 girls, #314 among girls’ names). The 109 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 109 | #1,834 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,014 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,381 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,531 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,644 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,787 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,823 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,874 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,718 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,541 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,624 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,970 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,009 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,907 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,230 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,320 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,854 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,858 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,543 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,356 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,525 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,288 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,061 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,790 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,573 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,472 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 178 | #1,112 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 206 | #980 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 226 | #891 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 239 | #836 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 267 | #757 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 308 | #682 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 249 | #804 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 240 | #830 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 264 | #779 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 265 | #770 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 281 | #703 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 333 | #600 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 371 | #542 | 0.21 |
| 1986 | 376 | #540 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 421 | #487 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 453 | #461 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 518 | #419 | 0.31 |
| 1982 | 687 | #344 | 0.41 |
| 1981 | 668 | #350 | 0.40 |
| 1980 | 665 | #355 | 0.40 |
| 1979 | 605 | #374 | 0.38 |
| 1978 | 582 | #367 | 0.38 |
| 1977 | 618 | #357 | 0.40 |
| 1976 | 656 | #338 | 0.45 |
| 1975 | 644 | #343 | 0.44 |
| 1974 | 699 | #320 | 0.48 |
| 1973 | 699 | #323 | 0.48 |
| 1972 | 725 | #323 | 0.48 |
| 1971 | 844 | #314 | 0.51 |
| 1970 | 791 | #332 | 0.45 |
| 1969 | 660 | #354 | 0.39 |
| 1968 | 566 | #385 | 0.35 |
| 1967 | 511 | #409 | 0.31 |
| 1966 | 543 | #392 | 0.32 |
| 1965 | 577 | #381 | 0.33 |
| 1964 | 504 | #437 | 0.27 |
| 1963 | 346 | #524 | 0.18 |
| 1962 | 359 | #513 | 0.18 |
| 1961 | 393 | #491 | 0.19 |
| 1960 | 419 | #481 | 0.21 |
| 1959 | 396 | #487 | 0.20 |
| 1958 | 415 | #466 | 0.21 |
| 1957 | 424 | #458 | 0.21 |
| 1956 | 357 | #495 | 0.18 |
| 1955 | 326 | #512 | 0.17 |
| 1954 | 237 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 188 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 106 | #897 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 112 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 64 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 72 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,159 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 72 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 80 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 66 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 71 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 59 | #1,037 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 56 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,790 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,884 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,595 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,584 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,956 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bobbi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bobbi has been given almost only to girls: 64 boys in 94 years of records.
Girls and boys named Bobbi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bobbi, and how old are they?
22,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 24,280 Americans ever recorded as Bobbi. The median Bobbi alive today is 50 years old; half are between 40 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 19,715 people named Bobbi (19,523 women and girls, 192 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,330 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 200 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9,690 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,770 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 901 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bobbi born?
The states with the most babies named Bobbi are Pennsylvania, California and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 1,934 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 1,743 | #1,424 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 1,706 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 1,038 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 1,034 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 955 | #1,871 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 852 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 801 | #1,931 | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 785 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 694 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Bobbi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bobbi is most over-represented in Montana: since 1932 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bobbi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 461,283 babies since 1880, Bobbi is the third most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 412 babies (26%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bobbi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bobbi and names like it
- Compare Bobbi and BobbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBobbi peaked in 1971.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bobbi since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Bobbi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bobbi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.