Jobie
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jobie has been given to 508 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1919, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Jobie, 2019
1 in 579,000
Jobie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Jobie over time
In 2019, Jobie went to 45% girls and 55% 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 Jobie?
Jobie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 299,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jobie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jobie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jobies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jobie was born before 1959 — so the typical Jobie is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 12.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 260
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 12.9% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Jobie 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 1919 (13)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.4% average annual change
Spellings of Jobie
Jobie is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 37.4% against Jobie's 0.03%.
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 Jobie is used
Across 1910–2025, Jobie was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 823,350 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 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. Jobie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jobie around the world
Where Jobie 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.
- England & Wales1996–2025#5,137in 2025
- South Australia1979–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jobie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jobie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jobie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.