Boby
Boby was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 374 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Boby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Boby?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,560, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1935, the peak
Boby peaked in 1935, when 25 boys were given it, #1,358 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #11,560 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,238 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,023 | 2.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,552 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,351 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,148 | 2.9 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,695 | 3.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,192 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,569 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,096 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #4,089 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,570 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,742 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,714 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,583 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,895 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,423 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,733 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,004 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,195 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,723 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,501 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,448 | 20.6 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,647 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,358 | 24.0 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,409 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,003 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,782 | 16.3 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,940 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,093 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,008 | 13.9 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,682 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,541 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,750 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,769 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,423 | 4.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,402 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,867 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,220 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Boby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Boby has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Boby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Boby, and how old are they?
An estimated 108 Americans named Boby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 47 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 467 people named Boby (68 women and girls, 399 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times 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 Boby?
Boby is a less common spelling of Bobby: SSA has recorded 374 Boby and 324,728 Bobby since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 342,052 babies since 1880, Boby is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 970 babies recorded by SSA was a Boby (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.
More about Boby and names like it
- Compare Boby and BobbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sBoby peaked in 1935.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boby since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Boby.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Boby alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.