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How popular is “Bobby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bobby” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bobby” 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 “Bobby” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bobby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bobby” 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
1900 12 0.000026651 5 7 -17%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 100%
1904 16 0.000039655 8 8 0%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1907 14 0.000030082 9 5 29%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1909 14 0.000027385 5 9 -29%
1910 24 0.000040629 16 8 33%
1911 22 0.000034147 10 12 -9%
1912 38 0.000038459 24 14 26%
1913 27 0.000023744 13 14 -4%
1914 57 0.000040244 21 36 -26%
1915 66 0.000036018 24 42 -27%
1916 80 0.000041356 31 49 -22%
1917 91 0.000045347 29 62 -36%
1918 127 0.000058495 46 81 -28%
1919 130 0.000061604 37 93 -43%
1920 223 0.000098557 53 170 -52%
1921 319 0.000136646 45 274 -72%
1922 435 0.000190026 65 370 -70%
1923 546 0.000237136 76 470 -72%
1924 832 0.000349344 99 733 -76%
1925 1196 0.000512578 111 1085 -81%
1926 1739 0.000757436 144 1595 -83%
1927 2465 0.001062794 178 2287 -86%
1928 3164 0.001399419 193 2971 -88%
1929 4133 0.001885354 209 3924 -90%
1930 5444 0.002448626 262 5182 -90%
1931 6100 0.002898705 242 5858 -92%
1932 6847 0.003243039 250 6597 -93%
1933 6749 0.003375433 259 6490 -92%
1934 7777 0.003744675 247 7530 -94%
1935 7971 0.003814058 245 7726 -94%
1936 7928 0.003815982 193 7735 -95%
1937 7953 0.003732629 208 7745 -95%
1938 7688 0.003474686 191 7497 -95%
1939 7203 0.003268976 147 7056 -96%
1940 7031 0.003053392 149 6882 -96%
1941 6766 0.00277702 176 6590 -95%
1942 6381 0.002335807 132 6249 -96%
1943 6269 0.002221034 148 6121 -95%
1944 5582 0.002075032 171 5411 -94%
1945 5178 0.001951819 129 5049 -95%
1946 5943 0.001859915 172 5771 -94%
1947 6300 0.001748872 184 6116 -94%
1948 5720 0.001656762 139 5581 -95%
1949 5275 0.001513727 155 5120 -94%
1950 5147 0.001469162 129 5018 -95%
1951 5140 0.001395321 134 5006 -95%
1952 5091 0.001340441 131 4960 -95%
1953 5315 0.001379214 136 5179 -95%
1954 5639 0.001416582 131 5508 -95%
1955 5338 0.001329488 115 5223 -96%
1956 5464 0.001325237 106 5358 -96%
1957 5730 0.00136359 113 5617 -96%
1958 5835 0.001411499 98 5737 -97%
1959 5801 0.001395145 125 5676 -96%
1960 5754 0.001385233 102 5652 -96%
1961 5526 0.001334041 123 5403 -96%
1962 5431 0.001345849 108 5323 -96%
1963 5306 0.001340508 94 5212 -96%
1964 5194 0.001336041 111 5083 -96%
1965 4675 0.001289495 87 4588 -96%
1966 4149 0.001193732 82 4067 -96%
1967 3876 0.001141714 98 3778 -95%
1968 3730 0.001104069 101 3629 -95%
1969 3768 0.001084216 115 3653 -94%
1970 3783 0.001048935 147 3636 -92%
1971 3785 0.001102741 133 3652 -93%
1972 3285 0.001045182 113 3172 -93%
1973 3004 0.000995728 115 2889 -92%
1974 2909 0.000956908 117 2792 -92%
1975 2876 0.000952509 104 2772 -93%
1976 2754 0.000907623 110 2644 -92%
1977 2649 0.000833938 110 2539 -92%
1978 2495 0.000786107 97 2398 -92%
1979 2699 0.000811241 115 2584 -91%
1980 2832 0.000822179 108 2724 -92%
1981 2757 0.000796965 99 2658 -93%
1982 2706 0.000771388 101 2605 -93%
1983 2447 0.000706544 90 2357 -93%
1984 2168 0.000621425 49 2119 -95%
1985 2144 0.00060071 50 2094 -95%
1986 2162 0.000607802 57 2105 -95%
1987 1934 0.000536386 45 1889 -95%
1988 1745 0.000472254 30 1715 -97%
1989 1810 0.000470809 51 1759 -94%
1990 1706 0.000431628 29 1677 -97%
1991 1544 0.000396379 36 1508 -95%
1992 1408 0.000366545 21 1387 -97%
1993 1243 0.000329684 22 1221 -96%
1994 1155 0.00031068 19 1136 -97%
1995 1066 0.000291085 20 1046 -96%
1996 954 0.000261571 22 932 -95%
1997 924 0.000254844 11 913 -98%
1998 854 0.000232178 19 835 -96%
1999 740 0.000200332 11 729 -97%
2000 742 0.000196301 12 730 -97%
2001 663 0.000177112 8 655 -98%
2002 650 0.000173876 6 644 -98%
2003 567 0.00014912 8 559 -97%
2004 581 0.000152058 8 573 -97%
2005 505 0.000131345 505 -100%
2006 552 0.000139528 6 546 -98%
2007 523 0.000130826 523 -100%
2008 521 0.000132548 6 515 -98%
2009 463 0.000121199 5 458 -98%
2010 462 0.000125009 5 457 -98%
2011 345 0.000094319 345 -100%
2012 337 0.000092143 6 331 -96%
2013 363 0.00009957 363 -100%
2014 313 0.000084449 313 -100%
2015 328 0.000088627 328 -100%
2016 322 0.00008777 322 -100%
2017 303 0.000084727 5 298 -97%
2018 279 0.000079354 7 272 -95%
2019 258 0.000074332 8 250 -94%
2020 268 0.000080226 268 -100%
2021 222 0.000065526 7 215 -94%
2022 224 0.000066211 10 214 -91%
2023 169 0.000051039 169 -100%
2024 198 0.000059486 9 189 -91%

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