Bobette
Bobette was last recorded in 1977, when 8 babies were given it; 1,464 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bobette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bobette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,947, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1954, the peak
Bobette peaked in 1954, when 55 girls were given it, #1,347 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 8 | #6,947 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,437 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,082 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,787 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,170 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,911 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,177 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,584 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,594 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,490 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 28 | #2,278 | 17.0 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,148 | 17.7 |
| 1965 | 34 | #1,999 | 19.3 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,918 | 20.1 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,869 | 20.2 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,827 | 19.8 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,788 | 20.3 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,655 | 22.8 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,853 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,385 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,845 | 17.1 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,483 | 25.4 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,578 | 21.5 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,347 | 28.3 |
| 1953 | 54 | #1,317 | 28.7 |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,335 | 28.0 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,450 | 23.3 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,476 | 22.8 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,631 | 19.3 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,472 | 23.0 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,415 | 24.3 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,589 | 19.7 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,547 | 21.4 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,519 | 21.9 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,708 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,444 | 23.7 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,891 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,902 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,745 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,241 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,923 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,044 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,931 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,947 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,976 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,658 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,440 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,098 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,207 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,200 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,103 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,924 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,703 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,832 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,376 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,399 | 12.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,712 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,606 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,912 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,907 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,125 | 8.3 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,842 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bobette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bobette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bobette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bobette, and how old are they?
An estimated 940 Americans named Bobette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 62 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,078 people named Bobette (1,072 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,063 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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 Bobette born?
The states with the most babies named Bobette are Illinois, California and Pennsylvania, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 120 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 91 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Idaho | 6 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Bobette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bobette is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1915 it was given 1.5 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 Bobette 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,232 babies since 1880, Bobette is the most given (66% of them).
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 Bobette
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 Bobette and names like it
- Compare Bobette and BobbetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBobette peaked in 1954.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bobette since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Bobette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bobette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.