Jobie
Jobie was last recorded in 2019, when 11 babies were given it; 508 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jobie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jobie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,402, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1963, the peak
Jobie peaked in 1963, when 14 babies were given it (9 boys, #2,950 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,645 | 6 | #11,402 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #11,363 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,596 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,821 | 5 | #13,487 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,173 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #8,016 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,388 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,480 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,701 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,149 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | under 5 | 9 | #5,867 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 12 | #4,532 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,542 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,636 | 5 | #7,844 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,482 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,291 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,385 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,837 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,197 | 5 | #6,818 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,713 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,338 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,263 | 8 | #4,364 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,890 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 10 | #3,434 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,782 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,191 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 12 | #2,891 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,530 | 6 | #4,482 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,476 | 5 | #4,415 |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,178 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 12 | #2,480 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,037 | 9 | #2,950 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,756 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 9 | #2,996 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 9 | #2,928 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,223 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 7 | #3,337 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,087 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 9 | #2,807 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,176 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 10 | #2,523 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 6 | #3,486 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #3,999 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,766 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 9 | #2,485 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #2,988 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 6 | #3,383 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,823 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,702 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,286 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 10 | #2,397 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,807 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,932 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,911 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #4,036 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 9 | #2,768 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 10 | #2,695 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 8 | #3,110 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 8 | #3,228 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 8 | #3,298 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 7 | #3,550 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 6 | #4,025 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #4,069 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 8 | #3,352 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 13 | #2,324 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,271 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,688 |
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 Jobie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 508 Americans recorded as Jobie, 12% are girls and 88% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jobie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jobie, and how old are they?
An estimated 315 Americans named Jobie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 36 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 477 people named Jobie (169 women and girls, 308 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 345 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,075 babies since 1880, Jobie is the third most given (17% 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 Jobie
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 Jobie and names like it
- Compare Jobie and JobeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJobie peaked in 1963.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jobie since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Jobie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jobie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.