Hobart
Hobart was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 3,806 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hobart by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hobart mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hobart is “a patronymic English surname transferred from the given name derived from a variant of Hubert.”
/ˈhəʊbɑːt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hobart?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,929, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
136 babies in 1921, the peak
Hobart peaked in 1921, when 136 boys were given it, #534 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,929 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,237 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,626 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,483 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,233 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #6,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,185 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,658 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,057 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,277 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,194 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,123 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,357 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,972 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,207 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,097 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,041 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,481 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,608 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,816 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,553 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 25 | #1,571 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,821 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,860 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 25 | #1,598 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,178 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,938 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,737 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,499 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,603 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 26 | #1,551 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,350 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,852 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,365 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,305 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,437 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,325 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,309 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,098 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,196 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,134 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,357 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,143 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,176 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 50 | #939 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,117 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 43 | #985 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 36 | #1,076 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 53 | #855 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 44 | #949 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 42 | #960 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 50 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 40 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 49 | #891 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 66 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 73 | #712 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 76 | #725 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 78 | #703 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 79 | #718 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 99 | #634 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 90 | #669 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 102 | #623 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 132 | #550 | 0.12 |
| 1923 | 116 | #586 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 132 | #547 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 136 | #534 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 122 | #560 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 89 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 133 | #522 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 100 | #594 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 88 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 86 | #626 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 36 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 38 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 25 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 27 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 18 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 15 | #733 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 12 | #800 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 19 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 19 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1905 | 14 | #648 | 0.11 |
| 1904 | 14 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 11 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 18 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1901 | 21 | #415 | 0.20 |
| 1900 | 27 | #438 | 0.18 |
| 1899 | 31 | #318 | 0.29 |
| 1898 | 42 | #281 | 0.34 |
| 1897 | 105 | #148 | 0.93 |
| 1896 | 135 | #128 | 1.1 |
| 1895 | 16 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1894 | 7 | #906 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 6 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 6 | #875 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hobart a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hobart has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hobart: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hobart, and how old are they?
An estimated 734 Americans named Hobart and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 56 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 977 people named Hobart (6 women and girls, 971 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 944 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 Hobart born?
The states with the most babies named Hobart are Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and West Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 222 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Ohio | 161 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| West Virginia | 131 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 130 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Indiana | 98 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 87 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 69 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 46 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Hobart is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hobart is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 2.8 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 boys’ 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 Hobart 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 9,530 babies since 1880, Hobart is the second most given (40% 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 Hobart
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Dewey | 34,920 |
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 Hobart and names like it
- Compare Hobart and HobertBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHobart peaked in 1921.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hobart since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Hobart.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hobart alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.