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Bobby
Pronounced /ˈbɑbi/
Rank in 2024
#1,124
Born in 2024
189
Peak year
1937 · #24
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:9 in 2024 (#10,932)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 189 boys were named Bobby, about 1 in every 9,076.
- It peaked in 1937 with 7,745 babies, ranked #24.
- It first shows up in the records in 1900.
- 314,848 boys have been named Bobby since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Bobby per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 5.5Silent1928–45
- 2.7Boomers1946–64
- 1.9Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7,441 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Silent: 112,613 babies, 5.45 per 1,000. Boomers: 102,543 babies, 2.73 per 1,000. Gen X: 51,517 babies, 1.89 per 1,000. Millennials: 28,208 babies, 0.93 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,318 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,201 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Bob + -y.
- A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
- A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈbɑbi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Bobby, CC BY-SA 4.0.