Tobey — #8387 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tobey

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,690 babies named Tobey between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tobey currently holds the #8387 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 85 babies received it in a single year. Tobey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 758 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tobey performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 495 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Tobey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 79 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Tobey in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tobey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,690 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.