Bobbye · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Bobbye.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1911

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 80 recorded years as a table

Bobbye, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1911	17
1912	14
1913	13
1914	7
1915	12
1916	10
1917	12
1918	20
1919	12
1920	23
1921	25
1922	21
1923	30
1924	34
1925	47
1926	62
1927	84
1928	85
1929	112
1930	106
1931	146
1932	106
1933	143
1934	133
1935	91
1936	111
1937	91
1938	77
1939	89
1940	54
1941	68
1942	57
1943	51
1944	44
1945	42
1946	39
1947	30
1948	31
1949	29
1950	29
1951	28
1952	27
1953	18
1954	22
1955	17
1956	23
1957	13
1958	9
1959	10
1960	7
1961	5
1962	5
1963	10
1964	13
1965	9
1966	7
1967	4
1968	5
1969	7
1970	5
1971	7
1972	6
1973	7
1974	7
1975	10
1976	8
1977	4
1978	4
1979	4
1980	4
1981	7
1982	7
1984	4
1985	3
1986	3
1988	3
1992	3
1995	3
1997	3
1998	4

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Bobbye isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1998: 7
Rank in 1998: #11,138
How rare: 1 in 252,421 girls
Since 1911: 3,172

Bobbye was last recorded in 1998. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1931, at 146 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Bobbye doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.