Bobi
Bobi was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 593 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bobi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bobi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,024, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1979, the peak
Bobi peaked in 1979, when 32 girls were given it, #2,732 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #12,024 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,652 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,708 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,582 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,669 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,213 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,568 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,476 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,755 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,557 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 15 | #4,882 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,012 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,179 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,022 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,077 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,161 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,732 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,293 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,619 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,690 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,164 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,705 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,130 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,105 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,070 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,255 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,213 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,806 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,330 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,275 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,416 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,116 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,289 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,563 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,567 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,711 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,339 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,940 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,232 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,493 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,274 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,310 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,965 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,719 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,782 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bobi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bobi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bobi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bobi, and how old are they?
An estimated 545 Americans named Bobi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 43 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 579 people named Bobi (531 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 559 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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).
How common is the spelling Bobi?
Bobi is a less common spelling of Bobbie: SSA has recorded 593 Bobi and 107,049 Bobbie since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 133,286 babies since 1880, Bobi is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 205 babies recorded by SSA was a Bobi (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 Bobi
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 Bobi and names like it
- Compare Bobi and BobbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBobi peaked in 1979.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bobi since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Bobi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bobi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.