How Many People Are Named Bobbie?

59,673

people named Bobbie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 5,727 people in the US has this name

Based on 107,049 babies named Bobbie in Social Security records from 1883 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#812

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#417

See the top 100

Peak Year

1934

2,850 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: BAHB-ee
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of BOBBY. As a feminine name it can be a diminutive of ROBERTA or BARBARA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Bobbie in English. Counting Bobbie and these spellings together, about 243,515 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

HrodebertHrodprehtRobertRoparzhVarvaraBaraBarbaraBaricaBarboraBobBrechtBrechtjeRobRobbe

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
89.1%
Male
10.9%

Of the babies given the name Bobbie, 89.1% were girls and 10.9% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1890s: 97.1% of the babies were girls then and 93.4% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Bobbie alive today is about 62 years old, and 56% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 49 and 77 in 2025.

Under 30 3,047
5.1%
30 to 59 23,439
39.3%
60 and over 33,186
55.6%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Bobbie first appears in the records in 1883 and was given most often in 1934, to 2,850 babies. In 2025, 96 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1883 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Bobbie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #110, in 1934. In 2025 it ranked #2,067. Among boys, its best rank was #178, in 1931.

GirlsBoys
Rank in 2025#2,067#12,294
Best rank#110 (1934)#178 (1931)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#126 in the 1930s#203 in the 1930s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Bobbie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Bobbie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 6,583 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bobbie was given 5 times as often in Mississippi, 3.7 times in Arkansas and 2.8 times in Tennessee.

Texas 6,583
Mississippi 4,390
California 3,212
Georgia 2,978
Tennessee 2,957
Alabama 2,816
Louisiana 2,450
North Carolina 2,407
Ohio 2,292
Arkansas 2,273
Kentucky 1,947
Florida 1,728
Illinois 1,707
South Carolina 1,673
Michigan 1,493
Oklahoma 1,489
Pennsylvania 1,448
Missouri 1,424
Indiana 1,206
Virginia 1,125
New York 863
West Virginia 658
Wisconsin 597
Washington 473
Colorado 466
Kansas 442
Iowa 431
Arizona 422
Minnesota 371
Maryland 352
New Mexico 282
Utah 266
Oregon 255
Nebraska 209
New Jersey 196
Idaho 130
Montana 119
Maine 114
Massachusetts 92
South Dakota 71
North Dakota 42
District of Columbia 34
Nevada 32
Connecticut 26
Alaska 23
Wyoming 23
Hawaii 18
Vermont 15
Delaware 15
New Hampshire 10

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