Bobbye
Bobbye is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 530th, in 1931, 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1931155 births
- Best rank
- #530first in 1931
- Since 1911
- 3,269people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,172 girls have been named Bobbye in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1931, with 155 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 155 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1930s alone account for 37%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 97 boys have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1931, its biggest year
Bobbye was the 530th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1931 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Barbara and Joan. See all of 1931.
Names that rose and fell with Bobbye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dolorespeak 1930
- Wynellpeak 1932
- Delorespeak 1932
- Arlyspeak 1933
- Darlynepeak 1935
- Arlisspeak 1933
- Bettyepeak 1933
- Bettypeak 1930
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.