Tobby
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tobby has been given to 394 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1977, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Tobby, 2015
1 in 740,000
Tobby 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tobby?
Tobby had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 383,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tobby sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tobby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tobbys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tobby was born before 1975 — so the typical Tobby is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 59.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 394
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 59.1% of all recorded uses (233).
Is Tobby 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 1977 (36)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.9% average annual change
Spellings of Tobby
Tobby is not the most common spelling — Bobby is, with 34.6% against Tobby'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.
Tobby around the world
Where Tobby 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.
- Canada1996–1997#1,557in 1997
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Tobby by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tobby
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tobby
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.