Boby
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Boby has been given to 374 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1935, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Boby, 2004
1 in 764,000
Boby 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Boby?
Boby had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 397,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Boby sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Boby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bobys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Boby was born before 1937 — so the typical Boby is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 42.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 71
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (158).
Is Boby 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
- —
- 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 1935 (25)
- Years since peak
- 90
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Boby
Boby is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 20.3% against Boby's 0.02%.
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 Boby is used
Across 1910–2025, Boby was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 456,583 across all states with data. It was least common in Arkansas (1 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. Boby has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Boby around the world
Where Boby ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1981–1998#3,327in 1998
- Canada1991–1993#1,469in 1993
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Boby by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Boby
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Boby
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.