Tobie
Tobie was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,834 among girls’ names; 2,321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Tobie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 29 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tobie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tobie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tobie is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tobie?
#10,834 among girls’ names, 2025
Tobie entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,834 in 2025.
102 babies in 1975, the peak
Tobie peaked in 1975, when 102 babies were given it (80 girls, #1,349 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,834 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,062 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,091 | 5 | #13,988 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #14,128 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,689 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,758 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 7 | #10,630 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,760 | 6 | #12,091 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,074 | 14 | #6,311 |
| 2015 | under 5 | 10 | #7,982 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,358 | 8 | #9,539 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,066 | 9 | #8,696 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,128 | 10 | #8,073 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,252 | 7 | #10,661 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,185 | 9 | #8,718 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,590 | 10 | #8,244 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,928 | 14 | #6,359 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,768 | 14 | #6,235 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,033 | 8 | #9,490 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,468 | 12 | #6,589 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,627 | 14 | #5,767 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,260 | 17 | #4,789 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,428 | 20 | #4,166 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,956 | 13 | #5,635 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,992 | 7 | #9,033 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,169 | 10 | #6,479 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,989 | 12 | #5,427 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,760 | 15 | #4,425 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,773 | 14 | #4,583 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,279 | 13 | #4,754 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,083 | 16 | #4,069 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,462 | 7 | #7,553 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,408 | 10 | #5,607 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,424 | 8 | #6,458 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,445 | 12 | #4,641 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,762 | 7 | #6,857 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,752 | 7 | #6,361 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,720 | 9 | #4,923 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,439 | 6 | #6,652 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,273 | 8 | #5,103 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,262 | 7 | #5,513 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,270 | 11 | #3,856 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,433 | 9 | #4,557 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,230 | 17 | #2,772 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,316 | 9 | #4,470 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,896 | 13 | #3,338 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,852 | 22 | #2,198 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,776 | 16 | #2,776 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,965 | 23 | #2,111 |
| 1975 | 80 | #1,349 | 22 | #2,125 |
| 1974 | 71 | #1,436 | 19 | #2,267 |
| 1973 | 73 | #1,372 | 27 | #1,733 |
| 1972 | 41 | #1,988 | 13 | #2,808 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,241 | 16 | #2,458 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,117 | 17 | #2,283 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,447 | 11 | #2,847 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,623 | 10 | #2,887 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,199 | 7 | #3,530 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,389 | 6 | #3,915 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,737 | 11 | #2,603 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,994 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,246 | 5 | #4,577 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,243 | 12 | #2,494 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,295 | 7 | #3,634 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,501 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,856 | 8 | #3,264 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,446 | 9 | #3,018 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,814 | 6 | #3,956 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,813 | 5 | #4,413 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,211 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,315 | 7 | #3,427 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,255 | 7 | #3,406 |
| 1952 | 14 | #3,029 | 7 | #3,346 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,268 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,895 | 13 | #2,194 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,871 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,124 | 6 | #3,633 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,887 | 5 | #4,219 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,015 | 5 | #3,972 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,363 | 5 | #3,737 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,753 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,546 | 7 | #3,209 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,089 | 8 | #2,924 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,382 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,299 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,204 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,714 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 8 | #2,834 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 8 | #3,069 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,496 | |
| 1929 | 7 | #4,009 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,538 | 6 | #4,172 |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,809 | |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,652 | 6 | #4,196 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #4,265 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #4,240 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 11 | #2,647 | |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,757 | 5 | #4,749 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,245 | 8 | #3,188 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 10 | #2,717 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 11 | #2,441 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 7 | #2,883 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 7 | #2,250 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 5 | #1,570 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 5 | #1,525 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 8 | #958 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 5 | #1,095 |
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 Tobie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,321 Americans recorded as Tobie, 60% are girls and 40% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tobie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tobie, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 2,321 Americans ever recorded as Tobie. The median Tobie alive today is 50 years old; half are between 29 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 1,820 people named Tobie (1,156 women and girls, 664 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,953 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 52 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 308 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 764 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 308 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 362 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 6,341 babies since 1880, Tobie is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 68 babies (13%), the third most given that year.
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 Tobie and names like it
- Compare Tobie and TobiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTobie peaked in 1975.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tobie since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Tobie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tobie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.