Tobby
Tobby was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 394 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tobby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tobby?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,845, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1977, the peak
Tobby peaked in 1977, when 36 boys were given it, #1,566 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,845 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,332 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,239 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,723 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,689 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,552 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,149 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,365 | 2.4 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,410 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,239 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 9 | #4,463 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,919 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,107 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,562 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 25 | #2,010 | 15.2 |
| 1977 | 36 | #1,566 | 21.9 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,046 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,624 | 20.5 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,541 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,649 | 18.6 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,237 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,545 | 8.5 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,117 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,041 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,302 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,529 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,914 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,623 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,586 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,807 | 4.7 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,412 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tobby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tobby has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tobby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tobby, and how old are they?
An estimated 353 Americans named Tobby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 47 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 412 people named Tobby (29 women and girls, 383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 364 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 Tobby?
Tobby is a less common spelling of Toby: SSA has recorded 394 Tobby and 43,233 Toby since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 47,061 babies since 1880, Tobby is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 343 babies recorded by SSA was a Tobby (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 Tobby
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 Tobby and names like it
- Compare Tobby and TobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTobby peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tobby.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tobby alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.