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How popular is “Tobi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tobi” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tobi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tobi” 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
1934 6 0.000002889 6 100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 100%
1946 17 0.00000532 17 100%
1947 18 0.000004997 18 100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 100%
1950 20 0.000005709 20 100%
1951 27 0.00000733 27 100%
1952 24 0.000006319 24 100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 100%
1954 29 0.000007285 29 100%
1955 33 0.000008219 33 100%
1956 47 0.000011399 47 100%
1957 39 0.000009281 39 100%
1958 34 0.000008225 34 100%
1959 35 0.000008418 35 100%
1960 36 0.000008667 36 100%
1961 41 0.000009898 41 100%
1962 40 0.000009912 40 100%
1963 66 0.000016674 66 100%
1964 44 0.000011318 44 100%
1965 55 0.000015171 55 100%
1966 62 0.000017838 55 7 77%
1967 59 0.000017379 54 5 83%
1968 65 0.00001924 65 100%
1969 78 0.000022444 69 9 77%
1970 101 0.000028005 92 9 82%
1971 101 0.000029426 88 13 74%
1972 119 0.000037862 108 11 82%
1973 91 0.000030164 82 9 80%
1974 148 0.000048684 136 12 84%
1975 161 0.000053322 150 11 86%
1976 124 0.000040866 109 15 76%
1977 83 0.000026129 76 7 83%
1978 73 0.000023 65 8 78%
1979 42 0.000012624 32 10 52%
1980 45 0.000013064 39 6 73%
1981 39 0.000011274 34 5 74%
1982 35 0.000009977 27 8 54%
1983 25 0.000007218 25 100%
1984 30 0.000008599 30 100%
1985 30 0.000008405 30 100%
1986 26 0.000007309 26 100%
1987 29 0.000008043 19 10 31%
1988 31 0.00000839 20 11 29%
1989 22 0.000005723 16 6 45%
1990 29 0.000007337 24 5 66%
1991 27 0.000006931 22 5 63%
1992 18 0.000004686 18 100%
1993 22 0.000005835 22 100%
1994 32 0.000008608 25 7 56%
1995 34 0.000009284 34 100%
1996 34 0.000009322 28 6 65%
1997 34 0.000009377 34 100%
1998 42 0.000011419 32 10 52%
1999 29 0.000007851 23 6 59%
2000 40 0.000010582 27 13 35%
2001 42 0.00001122 33 9 57%
2002 45 0.000012038 40 5 78%
2003 45 0.000011835 38 7 69%
2004 34 0.000008898 27 7 59%
2005 38 0.000009883 28 10 47%
2006 29 0.00000733 17 12 17%
2007 25 0.000006254 16 9 28%
2008 29 0.000007378 17 12 17%
2009 30 0.000007853 17 13 13%
2010 26 0.000007035 15 11 15%
2011 29 0.000007928 17 12 17%
2012 34 0.000009296 15 19 -12%
2013 33 0.000009052 14 19 -15%
2014 34 0.000009173 10 24 -41%
2015 32 0.000008647 14 18 -13%
2016 24 0.000006542 16 8 33%
2017 23 0.000006431 13 10 13%
2018 28 0.000007964 9 19 -36%
2019 34 0.000009796 18 16 6%
2020 38 0.000011375 18 20 -5%
2021 38 0.000011216 13 25 -32%
2022 38 0.000011232 9 29 -53%
2023 56 0.000016912 20 36 -29%
2024 43 0.000012919 17 26 -21%

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