Bobbie
Bobbie was given to 91 girls in 2025, #2,067 among girls’ names; 107,049 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 58,300 Americans named Bobbie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 49 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bobbie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bobbie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bobbie is “a diminutive of the female given name Roberta.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Robert.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bobbie?
#2,067 among girls’ names, 2025
Bobbie rose from #3,606 in 2015 to #2,067 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.1 to 56.6 per million.
2,850 babies in 1934, the peak
Bobbie peaked in 1934, when 2,850 babies were given it (2,190 girls, #110 among girls’ names). The 96 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,067 | 5 | #12,294 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,671 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,564 | 6 | #11,005 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,963 | 7 | #9,965 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,754 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,554 | 9 | #8,163 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,805 | 6 | #10,970 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,785 | 11 | #7,180 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,100 | 6 | #10,950 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,268 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,606 | 10 | #7,555 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,661 | 6 | #10,882 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,807 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,103 | 19 | #4,881 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,016 | 11 | #7,064 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,321 | 10 | #7,644 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,259 | 7 | #9,991 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,696 | 11 | #7,247 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,422 | 21 | #4,513 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,708 | 11 | #6,965 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,076 | 11 | #6,695 |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,962 | 13 | #5,843 |
| 2003 | 108 | #1,745 | 9 | #7,301 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,633 | 11 | #6,130 |
| 2001 | 144 | #1,332 | 18 | #4,313 |
| 2000 | 148 | #1,296 | 15 | #4,801 |
| 1999 | 184 | #1,085 | 19 | #3,850 |
| 1998 | 198 | #1,007 | 17 | #4,030 |
| 1997 | 264 | #789 | 19 | #3,607 |
| 1996 | 281 | #753 | 29 | #2,595 |
| 1995 | 320 | #667 | 33 | #2,352 |
| 1994 | 346 | #633 | 27 | #2,689 |
| 1993 | 314 | #688 | 37 | #2,121 |
| 1992 | 273 | #760 | 24 | #2,840 |
| 1991 | 361 | #625 | 42 | #1,864 |
| 1990 | 351 | #637 | 51 | #1,612 |
| 1989 | 387 | #569 | 60 | #1,407 |
| 1988 | 383 | #558 | 59 | #1,338 |
| 1987 | 424 | #503 | 46 | #1,535 |
| 1986 | 451 | #476 | 59 | #1,257 |
| 1985 | 559 | #404 | 59 | #1,242 |
| 1984 | 608 | #374 | 60 | #1,175 |
| 1983 | 737 | #315 | 60 | #1,168 |
| 1982 | 947 | #261 | 79 | #1,019 |
| 1981 | 934 | #269 | 85 | #977 |
| 1980 | 923 | #270 | 89 | #954 |
| 1979 | 877 | #280 | 74 | #1,029 |
| 1978 | 876 | #265 | 81 | #963 |
| 1977 | 983 | #251 | 91 | #893 |
| 1976 | 1,049 | #229 | 93 | #867 |
| 1975 | 1,042 | #233 | 100 | #832 |
| 1974 | 1,073 | #236 | 87 | #857 |
| 1973 | 1,076 | #240 | 85 | #861 |
| 1972 | 1,175 | #236 | 108 | #766 |
| 1971 | 1,205 | #242 | 117 | #761 |
| 1970 | 1,220 | #253 | 115 | #769 |
| 1969 | 1,056 | #272 | 131 | #689 |
| 1968 | 871 | #298 | 116 | #699 |
| 1967 | 856 | #294 | 133 | #646 |
| 1966 | 860 | #292 | 132 | #644 |
| 1965 | 908 | #294 | 147 | #626 |
| 1964 | 863 | #319 | 152 | #630 |
| 1963 | 793 | #336 | 155 | #627 |
| 1962 | 875 | #318 | 156 | #618 |
| 1961 | 896 | #306 | 157 | #629 |
| 1960 | 1,003 | #290 | 194 | #563 |
| 1959 | 1,077 | #267 | 168 | #600 |
| 1958 | 1,140 | #258 | 159 | #608 |
| 1957 | 1,162 | #250 | 174 | #582 |
| 1956 | 1,238 | #233 | 175 | #575 |
| 1955 | 1,158 | #237 | 170 | #566 |
| 1954 | 1,384 | #215 | 151 | #599 |
| 1953 | 1,316 | #221 | 193 | #500 |
| 1952 | 1,333 | #212 | 157 | #557 |
| 1951 | 1,489 | #192 | 180 | #504 |
| 1950 | 1,388 | #195 | 191 | #486 |
| 1949 | 1,470 | #188 | 219 | #450 |
| 1948 | 1,543 | #179 | 206 | #465 |
| 1947 | 1,618 | #178 | 253 | #429 |
| 1946 | 1,556 | #171 | 232 | #417 |
| 1945 | 1,563 | #150 | 264 | #367 |
| 1944 | 1,710 | #144 | 272 | #365 |
| 1943 | 1,804 | #147 | 342 | #331 |
| 1942 | 1,668 | #151 | 379 | #315 |
| 1941 | 1,633 | #145 | 423 | #279 |
| 1940 | 1,632 | #147 | 443 | #266 |
| 1939 | 1,676 | #141 | 475 | #242 |
| 1938 | 1,868 | #127 | 544 | #221 |
| 1937 | 1,953 | #122 | 597 | #204 |
| 1936 | 1,986 | #119 | 627 | #197 |
| 1935 | 2,004 | #116 | 570 | #211 |
| 1934 | 2,190 | #110 | 660 | #191 |
| 1933 | 2,010 | #114 | 618 | #195 |
| 1932 | 2,126 | #113 | 690 | #191 |
| 1931 | 1,901 | #124 | 751 | #178 |
| 1930 | 1,765 | #135 | 696 | #200 |
| 1929 | 1,529 | #146 | 603 | #210 |
| 1928 | 1,257 | #166 | 581 | #226 |
| 1927 | 1,058 | #194 | 502 | #254 |
| 1926 | 839 | #218 | 437 | #271 |
| 1925 | 677 | #254 | 325 | #315 |
| 1924 | 503 | #297 | 239 | #391 |
| 1923 | 419 | #315 | 206 | #421 |
| 1922 | 338 | #359 | 186 | #448 |
| 1921 | 342 | #358 | 135 | #538 |
| 1920 | 292 | #384 | 127 | #546 |
| 1919 | 297 | #378 | 78 | #718 |
| 1918 | 266 | #400 | 77 | #728 |
| 1917 | 232 | #416 | 62 | #798 |
| 1916 | 194 | #458 | 58 | #812 |
| 1915 | 193 | #441 | 42 | #964 |
| 1914 | 148 | #451 | 30 | #1,026 |
| 1913 | 132 | #431 | 21 | #1,115 |
| 1912 | 107 | #457 | 19 | #1,060 |
| 1911 | 93 | #422 | 12 | #989 |
| 1910 | 50 | #585 | 19 | #680 |
| 1909 | 64 | #469 | 10 | #958 |
| 1908 | 72 | #427 | 5 | #1,397 |
| 1907 | 53 | #491 | 10 | #876 |
| 1906 | 44 | #518 | 6 | #1,131 |
| 1905 | 54 | #458 | 6 | #1,109 |
| 1904 | 26 | #685 | 5 | #1,226 |
| 1903 | 28 | #632 | 9 | #791 |
| 1902 | 31 | #592 | 6 | #1,022 |
| 1901 | 30 | #560 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 35 | #592 | 6 | #1,179 |
| 1899 | 18 | #760 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 20 | #754 | 5 | #1,142 |
| 1897 | 17 | #762 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 16 | #817 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 26 | #599 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,071 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 17 | #719 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 13 | #835 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 20 | #591 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 13 | #762 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 12 | #760 | 5 | #986 |
| 1888 | 8 | #968 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 10 | #736 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,128 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 9 | #751 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 6 | #942 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 5 | #942 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bobbie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 107,049 Americans recorded as Bobbie, 83% are girls and 17% boys. In 2025 it went to 91 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bobbie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bobbie, and how old are they?
58,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 55% of the 107,049 Americans ever recorded as Bobbie. The median Bobbie alive today is 64 years old; half are between 49 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 54,717 people named Bobbie (48,842 women and girls, 5,875 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 68,251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 10,900 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 778 |
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 Bobbie born?
The states with the most babies named Bobbie are Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15,584 | #1,816 | 2.4× |
| Mississippi | 8,395 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Tennessee | 6,472 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 6,302 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Alabama | 6,129 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Arkansas | 5,082 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Louisiana | 4,800 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| North Carolina | 4,475 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 4,103 | #1,975 | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 3,989 | not ranked | 2.2× |
Where Bobbie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bobbie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.3 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 Bobbie 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, Bobbie is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 96 of their 412 babies (23%), the third 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 Bobbie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Marlyn | 9,112 |
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 Bobbie and names like it
- Compare Bobbie and BobbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBobbie peaked in 1934.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bobbie since 1910.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Bobbie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bobbie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.