Hobart
Hobart is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 128th, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921136 births
- Best rank
- #128in 1896
- Since 1885
- 3,806people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,806 boys have been named Hobart in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 136 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 136 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hobart | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 348 | |
| 1900s | 170 | |
| 1910s | 640 | |
| 1920s | 1,086 | |
| 1930s | 529 | |
| 1940s | 368 | |
| 1950s | 272 | |
| 1960s | 180 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 62 | |
| 1990s | 22 | |
| 2010s | 6 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Hobart was the 534th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Hobart
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Deweypeak 1898
- Jenningspeak 1926
- Hobertpeak 1922
- Gloverpeak 1915
- Barnettpeak 1923
- Simmiepeak 1918
- Murrypeak 1917
- Toypeak 1919
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.