Bobbie

Where Bobbie comes from

The dictionaries list Bobbie as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Robert — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1904
    Bobbie Rosenfeld born
    Canadian athletics competitor
  3. 1934
    Peak, #110
    2,190 babies named Bobbie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1944
    Bobbie Gentry born
    American singer-songwriter
  5. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #267.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
Namesakes
  • Bobbie Rosenfeld · Canadian athletics competitor, 1904–1969
  • Bobbie Gentry · American singer-songwriter, born 1944
  • Bobbie Eakes · American actress, born 1961
  • Bobbie Singer · Austrian singer, born 1981
  • Bobbie Heine Miller · South African Tennis player, 1909–2016

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.