Hobie

Peak · boys
1960 · 10 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
440
since 1955

Hobie over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Hobie has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,685, 1960boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025—
2024#5,06719
2023#6,89712
2022#10,8636
2021#7,08911
2020#4,85519
2019#7,64310
2018#9,6707
2017#8,8408
2016#7,60510
2015#8,0409
2014#10,7176
2013#10,7286
2012#10,7706
2011#7,50210
2010#8,8038
2009#8,9858
2008#12,5535
2007#10,9216
2006#9,5857
2005#11,4725
2004#11,3565
2003#6,25811
2002#5,72512
2001#8,3397
2000#5,04014
1999#5,65611
1998#4,41315
1997#4,24615
1996#4,39614
1995#3,55918
1994#3,91116
1993#6,8167
1992#4,87211
1991#4,00514
1990#2,78023
1989#5,6158
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1984#6,3155
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1963#3,6466
1962#3,3057
1961#4,0655
1960#2,68510
1959#3,6196
1958#3,0338
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First appearance
1955

The first year at least five boys were named Hobie! It came in at #3,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1957, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Hobie is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Hobie in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Hobie
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1955
  • Peaked 1960 at #2,685 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1961, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 89,306
  • Highest: 1 in 89,306 boys born in 1990 were named Hobie (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 90,678 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,685 in 1960, was only 1 in 213,232 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 32.7% of all boys named Hobie (144) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s20#3,033 (1958)#3,386
1960s28#2,685 (1960)#3,425
1970s0——
1980s21#4,698 (1985)#5,543
1990s144#2,780 (1990)#4,465
2000s80#5,040 (2000)#9,023
2010s80#7,502 (2011)#9,032
2020s67#4,855 (2020)#6,954

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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