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How popular is “Bobbye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bobbye” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bobbye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bobbye” 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
1911 7 0.000010865 7 100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 100%
1917 13 0.000006478 13 100%
1918 23 0.000010594 23 100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 100%
1920 27 0.000011933 27 100%
1921 31 0.000013279 31 100%
1922 25 0.000010921 25 100%
1923 36 0.000015635 36 100%
1924 42 0.000017635 42 100%
1925 57 0.000024429 57 100%
1926 73 0.000031796 73 100%
1927 100 0.000043115 100 100%
1928 98 0.000043345 98 100%
1929 125 0.000057021 125 100%
1930 127 0.000057123 119 8 87%
1931 162 0.000076982 155 7 91%
1932 113 0.000053522 113 100%
1933 149 0.000074521 144 5 93%
1934 146 0.0000703 139 7 90%
1935 95 0.000045457 95 100%
1936 121 0.000058241 116 5 92%
1937 106 0.00004975 97 9 83%
1938 90 0.000040677 85 5 89%
1939 103 0.000046745 98 5 90%
1940 68 0.000029531 62 6 82%
1941 89 0.000036529 82 7 84%
1942 84 0.000030749 77 7 83%
1943 79 0.000027989 71 8 80%
1944 66 0.000024535 59 7 79%
1945 55 0.000020732 55 100%
1946 67 0.000020968 61 6 82%
1947 54 0.00001499 54 100%
1948 52 0.000015061 52 100%
1949 50 0.000014348 50 100%
1950 50 0.000014272 50 100%
1951 50 0.000013573 50 100%
1952 50 0.000013165 50 100%
1953 33 0.000008563 33 100%
1954 42 0.000010551 42 100%
1955 34 0.000008468 34 100%
1956 47 0.000011399 47 100%
1957 27 0.000006425 27 100%
1958 19 0.000004596 19 100%
1959 21 0.000005051 21 100%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 100%
1963 19 0.0000048 19 100%
1964 25 0.000006431 25 100%
1965 16 0.000004413 16 100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 100%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 100%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 5 5 0%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%

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