Bobie
Bobie was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 797 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 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 Bobie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bobie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,025, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1936, the peak
Bobie peaked in 1936, when 39 babies were given it (15 girls, #2,045 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #12,025 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,671 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,346 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,088 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,632 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,597 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,140 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,208 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,370 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,599 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | #9,785 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,370 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,549 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,788 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,738 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,672 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,492 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,096 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,625 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,524 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,684 | 5 | #4,095 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,102 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,652 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,872 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,100 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,703 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,736 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,158 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,483 | 5 | #3,766 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,371 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 7 | #3,051 | |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,805 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,479 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,704 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,481 | |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,246 | 5 | #3,599 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,834 | 14 | #1,957 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,480 | 15 | #1,828 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,541 | 11 | #2,194 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,467 | 16 | #1,722 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,755 | 22 | #1,444 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,479 | 16 | #1,763 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,045 | 24 | #1,360 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,212 | 14 | #1,937 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,436 | 22 | #1,465 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,283 | 20 | #1,546 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,611 | 24 | #1,431 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,255 | 21 | #1,547 |
| 1930 | under 5 | 17 | #1,830 | |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,721 | 14 | #2,106 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,195 | 15 | #2,056 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,441 | 15 | #2,126 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,376 | 8 | #3,157 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,501 | 6 | #3,784 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,530 | 11 | #2,671 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,398 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,109 | 7 | #3,568 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,541 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,913 | 7 | #3,434 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,361 | 6 | #3,771 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,153 | 6 | #3,596 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 9 | #2,747 | |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,401 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 5 | #1,616 |
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 Bobie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 797 Americans recorded as Bobie, 53% are girls and 47% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bobie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bobie, and how old are they?
An estimated 273 Americans named Bobie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 49 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 396 people named Bobie (254 women and girls, 142 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 357 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Bobie?
Bobie is a less common spelling of Bobbie: SSA has recorded 797 Bobie and 107,049 Bobbie since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 136,555 babies since 1880, Bobie is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 205 babies recorded by SSA was a Bobie (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 Bobie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Arliss | 1,529 |
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 Bobie and names like it
- Compare Bobie and BobbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBobie peaked in 1936.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bobie since 1910.
- The top names of 1936The year the most babies were named Bobie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Bobie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.