Bobie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bobie has been given to 797 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1936, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% girls, 47% boys all-time.
Babies named Bobie, 1996
1 in 608,000
Bobie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Bobie over time
In 1996, Bobie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Bobie?
Bobie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 608,000
- 6 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,209 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bobie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,209 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bobie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bobies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bobie was born before 1943 — so the typical Bobie is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 22.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 187
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Bobie 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 1936 (15)
- Years since peak
- 89
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.2% average annual change
Spellings of Bobie
Bobie is not the most common spelling — Bonnie is, with 28.6% against Bobie's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Bobie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Bobie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 796,532 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
- 2Oklahoma1 in —
- 3Tennessee1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Bobie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bobie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Bobie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bobie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.