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How popular is “Tobie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tobie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tobie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tobie” 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
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 11 0.000006003 11 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 13 0.000006478 5 8 -23%
1918 11 0.000005067 6 5 9%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1923 11 0.000004777 5 6 -9%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 5 6 -9%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 100%
1942 15 0.000005491 7 8 -7%
1943 21 0.00000744 14 7 33%
1944 23 0.00000855 12 11 4%
1945 14 0.000005277 9 5 29%
1946 17 0.00000532 12 5 41%
1947 19 0.000005274 14 5 47%
1948 18 0.000005214 12 6 33%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1950 27 0.000007707 14 13 4%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 100%
1952 21 0.000005529 14 7 33%
1953 20 0.00000519 13 7 30%
1954 20 0.000005024 13 7 30%
1955 14 0.000003487 14 100%
1956 23 0.000005578 18 5 57%
1957 24 0.000005711 18 6 50%
1958 32 0.000007741 23 9 44%
1959 26 0.000006253 18 8 38%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 100%
1961 35 0.000008449 28 7 60%
1962 23 0.0000057 11 12 -4%
1963 33 0.000008337 28 5 70%
1964 20 0.000005145 20 100%
1965 32 0.000008826 21 11 31%
1966 21 0.000006042 15 6 43%
1967 24 0.000007069 17 7 42%
1968 34 0.000010064 24 10 41%
1969 40 0.00001151 29 11 45%
1970 56 0.000015527 39 17 39%
1971 52 0.00001515 36 16 38%
1972 54 0.000017181 41 13 52%
1973 100 0.000033147 73 27 46%
1974 90 0.000029605 71 19 58%
1975 102 0.000033782 80 22 57%
1976 69 0.00002274 46 23 33%
1977 46 0.000014481 30 16 30%
1978 51 0.000016069 29 22 14%
1979 33 0.000009919 20 13 21%
1980 27 0.000007839 18 9 33%
1981 31 0.000008961 14 17 -10%
1982 18 0.000005131 9 9 0%
1983 20 0.000005775 9 11 -10%
1984 18 0.000005159 11 7 22%
1985 27 0.000007565 19 8 41%
1986 20 0.000005623 14 6 40%
1987 17 0.000004715 8 9 -6%
1988 12 0.000003248 5 7 -17%
1989 14 0.000003642 7 7 0%
1990 22 0.000005566 10 12 -9%
1991 15 0.000003851 7 8 -7%
1992 18 0.000004686 8 10 -11%
1993 19 0.000005039 12 7 26%
1994 27 0.000007263 11 16 -19%
1995 19 0.000005188 6 13 -37%
1996 24 0.00000658 10 14 -17%
1997 23 0.000006344 8 15 -30%
1998 24 0.000006525 12 12 0%
1999 27 0.000007309 17 10 26%
2000 20 0.000005291 13 7 30%
2001 22 0.000005877 9 13 -18%
2002 31 0.000008293 11 20 -29%
2003 26 0.000006838 9 17 -31%
2004 24 0.000006281 10 14 -17%
2005 28 0.000007282 16 12 14%
2006 15 0.000003792 7 8 -7%
2007 23 0.000005753 11 12 -4%
2008 28 0.000007123 14 14 0%
2009 18 0.000004712 8 10 -11%
2010 22 0.000005953 13 9 18%
2011 15 0.000004101 8 7 7%
2012 19 0.000005195 9 10 -5%
2013 14 0.00000384 5 9 -29%
2014 14 0.000003777 6 8 -14%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 20 0.000005452 6 14 -40%
2017 12 0.000003356 6 6 0%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 -100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%
2023 14 0.000004228 9 5 29%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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