Tobin
Tobin was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,230 among boys’ names; 5,737 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,310 Americans named Tobin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 14 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tobin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tobin?
#3,230 among boys’ names, 2025
Tobin fell from #1,352 in 2015 to #3,230 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 67.8 to 21.7 per million.
163 babies in 2013, the peak
Tobin peaked in 2013, when 163 boys were given it, #1,118 among boys’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,230 | 21.7 |
| 2024 | 46 | #2,827 | 26.7 |
| 2023 | 51 | #2,604 | 29.8 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,347 | 34.9 |
| 2021 | 79 | #1,928 | 45.2 |
| 2020 | 87 | #1,765 | 50.4 |
| 2019 | 79 | #1,897 | 44.0 |
| 2018 | 84 | #1,820 | 46.3 |
| 2017 | 84 | #1,808 | 45.4 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,464 | 62.2 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | #1,352 | 67.8 |
| 2014 | 154 | #1,200 | 80.2 |
| 2013 | 163 | #1,118 | 86.2 |
| 2012 | 139 | #1,272 | 73.3 |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,277 | 71.1 |
| 2010 | 150 | #1,199 | 78.2 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,482 | 57.0 |
| 2008 | 139 | #1,259 | 68.1 |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,195 | 71.3 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,452 | 52.1 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,370 | 55.1 |
| 2004 | 82 | #1,600 | 41.3 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,378 | 49.6 |
| 2002 | 78 | #1,583 | 40.2 |
| 2001 | 68 | #1,704 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 63 | #1,762 | 32.1 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,091 | 24.0 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,120 | 23.0 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,474 | 38.7 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,172 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,391 | 17.3 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,252 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,040 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,078 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,787 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,038 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 57 | #1,469 | 28.5 |
| 1988 | 44 | #1,637 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 44 | #1,608 | 23.6 |
| 1986 | 52 | #1,381 | 28.2 |
| 1985 | 38 | #1,666 | 20.6 |
| 1984 | 37 | #1,626 | 20.5 |
| 1983 | 46 | #1,396 | 25.7 |
| 1982 | 47 | #1,392 | 25.9 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,475 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 46 | #1,409 | 25.8 |
| 1979 | 64 | #1,127 | 37.2 |
| 1978 | 98 | #873 | 59.7 |
| 1977 | 107 | #827 | 65.1 |
| 1976 | 102 | #831 | 65.0 |
| 1975 | 127 | #740 | 81.3 |
| 1974 | 114 | #760 | 72.5 |
| 1973 | 118 | #739 | 75.7 |
| 1972 | 90 | #850 | 55.5 |
| 1971 | 132 | #720 | 74.6 |
| 1970 | 122 | #747 | 65.7 |
| 1969 | 113 | #739 | 63.2 |
| 1968 | 81 | #823 | 46.6 |
| 1967 | 58 | #954 | 33.3 |
| 1966 | 64 | #912 | 35.9 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,142 | 23.7 |
| 1964 | 71 | #904 | 35.6 |
| 1963 | 57 | #1,010 | 28.1 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,167 | 21.8 |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,104 | 24.0 |
| 1960 | 83 | #833 | 38.9 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,047 | 25.8 |
| 1958 | 85 | #818 | 40.0 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,264 | 18.1 |
| 1956 | 25 | #1,604 | 11.8 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,721 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 26 | #1,521 | 12.8 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,381 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,069 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,831 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,312 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,658 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,989 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,857 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,697 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,961 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tobin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,737 Americans recorded as Tobin, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 37 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Tobin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tobin, and how old are they?
5,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 5,737 Americans ever recorded as Tobin. The median Tobin alive today is 26 years old; half are between 14 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 5,051 people named Tobin (244 women and girls, 4,807 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,040 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 462 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 651 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
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).
Where are babies named Tobin born?
The states with the most babies named Tobin are California, Texas and Michigan, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 719 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 330 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 222 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 162 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 160 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 83 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 78 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 75 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 55 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Tobin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tobin is most over-represented in Washington: since 1941 it was given 1.4 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 Tobin 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,195 babies since 1880, Tobin is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 42 babies (88%), again the most given.
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 Tobin
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 Tobin and names like it
- Compare Tobin and TobynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTobin peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tobin since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Tobin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tobin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.