How popular is “Bobbie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bobbie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bobbie” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bobbie” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bobbie” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bobbie” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bobbie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bobbie” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1883	5	0.000023047	5		100%
1884	6	0.000024645	6		100%
1885	9	0.000037367	9		100%
1886	5	0.000019584	5		100%
1887	10	0.000040422	10		100%
1888	8	0.000026714	8		100%
1889	17	0.000058835	12	5	41%
1890	13	0.000043132	13		100%
1891	20	0.000069766	20		100%
1892	13	0.000038879	13		100%
1893	17	0.000052272	17		100%
1894	9	0.000026573	9		100%
1895	26	0.00007407	26		100%
1896	16	0.000044757	16		100%
1897	17	0.000048997	17		100%
1898	25	0.000065539	20	5	60%
1899	18	0.000053061	18		100%
1900	41	0.000091059	35	6	71%
1901	30	0.000086752	30		100%
1902	37	0.000095673	31	6	68%
1903	37	0.000097062	28	9	51%
1904	31	0.000076831	26	5	68%
1905	60	0.000141535	54	6	80%
1906	50	0.000116699	44	6	76%
1907	63	0.00013537	53	10	68%
1908	77	0.000157577	72	5	87%
1909	74	0.000144751	64	10	73%
1910	69	0.000116808	50	19	45%
1911	105	0.000162973	93	12	77%
1912	126	0.000127522	107	19	70%
1913	153	0.000134552	132	21	73%
1914	178	0.000125676	148	30	66%
1915	235	0.000128245	193	42	64%
1916	252	0.000130272	194	58	54%
1917	294	0.000146506	232	62	58%
1918	343	0.000157984	266	77	55%
1919	375	0.000177704	297	78	58%
1920	419	0.000185182	292	127	39%
1921	477	0.000204326	342	135	43%
1922	524	0.000228905	338	186	29%
1923	625	0.000271446	419	206	34%
1924	742	0.000311554	503	239	36%
1925	1002	0.000429434	677	325	35%
1926	1276	0.000555772	839	437	32%
1927	1560	0.0006726	1058	502	36%
1928	1838	0.000812937	1257	581	37%
1929	2132	0.000972556	1529	603	43%
1930	2460	0.001106469	1765	695	43%
1931	2652	0.001260224	1901	751	43%
1932	2816	0.001333781	2126	690	51%
1933	2628	0.001314363	2010	618	53%
1934	2850	0.001372293	2190	660	54%
1935	2574	0.001231638	2004	570	56%
1936	2613	0.001257714	1986	627	52%
1937	2550	0.001196807	1953	597	53%
1938	2412	0.001090133	1868	544	55%
1939	2151	0.0009762	1676	475	56%
1940	2075	0.000901122	1632	443	57%
1941	2056	0.000843859	1633	423	59%
1942	2048	0.000749684	1669	379	63%
1943	2145	0.000759949	1803	342	68%
1944	1982	0.000736781	1710	272	73%
1945	1828	0.000689055	1563	265	71%
1946	1788	0.000559571	1556	232	74%
1947	1871	0.000519387	1618	253	73%
1948	1749	0.000506587	1543	206	76%
1949	1689	0.00048468	1470	219	74%
1950	1579	0.00045071	1388	191	76%
1951	1669	0.000453072	1489	180	78%
1952	1490	0.000392311	1333	157	79%
1953	1509	0.000391577	1316	193	74%
1954	1535	0.00038561	1384	151	80%
1955	1328	0.000330753	1158	170	74%
1956	1413	0.000342709	1238	175	75%
1957	1336	0.000317933	1162	174	74%
1958	1298	0.000313989	1140	158	76%
1959	1246	0.000299664	1077	169	73%
1960	1197	0.000288169	1003	194	68%
1961	1053	0.000254207	896	157	70%
1962	1032	0.000255739	876	156	70%
1963	948	0.000239503	793	155	67%
1964	1014	0.000260829	862	152	70%
1965	1055	0.000290998	908	147	72%
1966	992	0.000285414	860	132	73%
1967	989	0.00029132	856	133	73%
1968	987	0.000292149	871	116	76%
1969	1188	0.000341839	1057	131	78%
1970	1335	0.000370164	1220	115	83%
1971	1322	0.000385158	1205	117	82%
1972	1283	0.00040821	1175	108	83%
1973	1161	0.000384834	1076	85	85%
1974	1161	0.000381908	1073	88	85%
1975	1141	0.00037789	1042	99	83%
1976	1142	0.000376364	1049	93	84%
1977	1074	0.000338109	983	91	83%
1978	957	0.000301525	876	81	83%
1979	951	0.000285843	877	74	84%
1980	1012	0.000293801	923	89	82%
1981	1019	0.000294562	934	85	83%
1982	1026	0.000292478	947	79	85%
1983	797	0.000230125	737	60	85%
1984	668	0.000191472	608	60	82%
1985	618	0.000173152	559	59	81%
1986	511	0.000143657	452	59	77%
1987	469	0.000130075	423	46	80%
1988	442	0.00011962	383	59	73%
1989	447	0.000116272	387	60	73%
1990	402	0.000101708	351	51	75%
1991	403	0.000103459	361	42	79%
1992	297	0.000077318	273	24	84%
1993	351	0.000093097	314	37	79%
1994	373	0.000100332	346	27	86%
1995	353	0.000096391	320	33	81%
1996	310	0.000084997	281	29	81%
1997	283	0.000078053	264	19	87%
1998	215	0.000058452	198	17	84%
1999	203	0.000054956	184	19	81%
2000	163	0.000043123	148	15	82%
2001	162	0.000043276	144	18	78%
2002	124	0.00003317	113	11	82%
2003	117	0.000030771	108	9	85%
2004	108	0.000028265	95	13	76%
2005	101	0.000026269	90	11	78%
2006	77	0.000019463	66	11	71%
2007	99	0.000024764	78	21	58%
2008	79	0.000020098	68	11	72%
2009	58	0.000015183	51	7	76%
2010	59	0.000015964	49	10	66%
2011	67	0.000018317	56	11	67%
2012	73	0.00001996	54	19	48%
2013	61	0.000016732	61		100%
2014	48	0.000012951	42	6	75%
2015	53	0.000014321	43	10	62%
2016	34	0.000009268	34		100%
2017	58	0.000016218	52	6	79%
2018	71	0.000020194	61	10	72%
2019	45	0.000012965	39	6	73%
2020	51	0.000015267	42	9	65%
2021	61	0.000018005	61		100%
2022	63	0.000018622	56	7	78%
2023	75	0.00002265	69	6	84%
2024	65	0.000019528	65		100%

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