Bobbie
#2,064 in the US in 2025
Bobbie in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been rising — up 195% as a share of girls' births.
Bobbie is given to both sexes: 88,627 female and 18,422 male births on record. The two curves rarely move together, which is why they are drawn separately rather than summed.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Bobbie in New Zealand
Bobbie never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1890 | #758 | 13 |
| 1900 | #589 | 35 |
| 1910 | #584 | 50 |
| 1920 | #384 | 292 |
| 1930 | #135 | 1,765 |
| 1940 | #147 | 1,632 |
| 1950 | #195 | 1,388 |
| 1960 | #290 | 1,003 |
| 1970 | #253 | 1,220 |
| 1980 | #270 | 923 |
| 1990 | #638 | 351 |
| 2000 | #1,298 | 148 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Bobbie most often since 1883. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Texas | 13,260 |
| Mississippi | 7,329 |
| Tennessee | 5,638 |
| Alabama | 5,367 |
| Georgia | 5,228 |
| Arkansas | 4,442 |
| Louisiana | 4,096 |
| North Carolina | 3,743 |
| California | 3,604 |
| Oklahoma | 3,231 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026