Bobbette
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bobbette has been given to 667 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 31 recorded.
Babies named Bobbette, 1977
1 in 635,000
Bobbette over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bobbette?
Bobbette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1977
- 1 in 635,000
- 5 of 3,176,294 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 307,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1977
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 440,329 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bobbette sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1977 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 440,329 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bobbette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bobbettes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bobbette was born before 1957 — so the typical Bobbette is around 68 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 29.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 451
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (195).
Is Bobbette rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (31)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Spellings of Bobbette
Bobbette is not the most common spelling — Babette is, with 60.6% against Bobbette's 12.3%.
Where Bobbette is used
Across 1910–2025, Bobbette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,037,601 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Iowa1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bobbette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bobbette by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bobbette
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bobbette
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.