Jobe

Where Jobe comes from

Jobe hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #837 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #819
    6 babies named Jobe — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1947
    JoBe Cerny born
    American actor
  5. 1985
    Jobe Wheelhouse born
    Australian soccer player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • JoBe Cerny · American actor, born 1947
  • Jobe Wheelhouse · Australian soccer player, born 1985
  • Jobe Watson · Australian-rules footballer, born 1985

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.