Tobe

Where Tobe comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tobe.

  • Vowel-ended
Tobe through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #465 among boys, with 15 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #431
    16 babies named Tobe, its best rank.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #701.
  4. 1943
    Tobe Hooper born
    American film director, screenwriter and producer
  5. 1965
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  6. 2002
    Tobe Leysen born
    Belgian association football player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Tobe Hooper · American film director, screenwriter and producer, 1943–2017
  • Tobe Leysen · Belgian association football player, born 2002
  • Tobe Sexton · American actor, born 1968
  • Tobe Levin · American academic, born 1948

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.