Bobbye
Bobbye was last recorded in 1998, when 7 babies were given it; 3,269 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Bobbye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 67 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bobbye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bobbye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,284, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
162 babies in 1931, the peak
Bobbye peaked in 1931, when 162 babies were given it (155 girls, #530 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | #11,284 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,689 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,923 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,570 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,917 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 7 | #8,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,922 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,383 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,041 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,221 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,514 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,561 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,444 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,212 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,506 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,980 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,158 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,873 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,030 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,366 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,673 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 42 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,739 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 50 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 50 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 50 | #1,288 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 54 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 61 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 55 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 59 | #1,017 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 71 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 77 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 82 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 62 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 98 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 85 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 97 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 116 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 95 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1934 | 139 | #545 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 144 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 113 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 155 | #530 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 119 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 125 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 98 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 100 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 73 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 57 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,228 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,484 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,531 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,699 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,852 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,690 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,362 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,181 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,990 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bobbye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,269 Americans recorded as Bobbye, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bobbye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bobbye, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 37% of the 3,269 Americans ever recorded as Bobbye. The median Bobbye alive today is 77 years old; half are between 67 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 1,566 people named Bobbye (1,518 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,634 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 474 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 499 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 145 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 58 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12 |
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 Bobbye born?
The states with the most babies named Bobbye are Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 767 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| Mississippi | 382 | not ranked | 5.6× |
| Arkansas | 232 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Tennessee | 200 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Louisiana | 187 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Oklahoma | 161 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Alabama | 95 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Kentucky | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Bobbye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bobbye is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1911 it was given 5.6 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 Bobbye 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 135,962 babies since 1880, Bobbye is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 205 babies recorded by SSA was a Bobbye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Bobbye
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 Bobbye and names like it
- Compare Bobbye and BobbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBobbye peaked in 1931.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bobbye since 1910.
- The top names of 1931The year the most babies were named Bobbye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bobbye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.