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Hobart

Boys' name

Mind + bright, famous, through Hubert

Hobart has been given to 3,806 babies in the U.S. since 1885. 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 1921, with 136 recorded.

Babies named Hobart, 2023

1 in 663,000

Hobart over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hobart: meaning, origin, and history

Mind + bright, famous, through Hubert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hobart means

Hobart belongs to the name family reached through Hobart → Hubert. Its meaning is “mind + bright, famous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hobart is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hubert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hobart is pronounced /ˈhəʊbɑːt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,806 boys were recorded with the name Hobart between 1885 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 136 in 1921; its best national rank was #128 in 1896.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hobart?

Hobart had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hobart sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hobart. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hobarts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hobart was born before 1925 — so the typical Hobart is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.29%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
659
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1920s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (1,086).

Is Hobart 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (136)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#128
1896

Spellings of Hobart

Hobart is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 91.8% against Hobart's 0.07%.

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 Hobart is used

Across 1910–2025, Hobart was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 101,059 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 12,500
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 14,286
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 25,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 100,000

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. Hobart has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hobart around the world

Where Hobart 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.

  • South Australia
    1944–1944
    #239
    in 1944

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Hobart

People whose public names include Hobart, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hobart by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#128
1896
Peak year
1921
136 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
3,806
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hobart

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HobertHobsonTaggartHartArtHobbesStewartStuartHobieMartLennartBartHobbsReinhartYosgartGerhartHobyEwartEvartLamartLeartBogartRobartErhart

Names with a curve like Hobart

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hobart, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ElzieMertonBerniceEvertClareEldredJuniusAlbinOttisFayJewellVivian

Sibling names for Hobart

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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