Tobey
Last seen for girls in 2005 at #16,462 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 69.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 53 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,698since 1924
Tobey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,312 | 9 | |
| 2023 | — | #10,821 | 6 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,147 | 14 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,587 | 10 | |
| 2020 | — | #6,620 | 12 | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #7,617 | 10 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,685 | 12 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,349 | 13 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,179 | 24 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,014 | 25 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,463 | 21 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,695 | 28 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,072 | 37 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,005 | 39 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,643 | 46 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,784 | 41 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #1,869 | 68 |
| 2004 | — | #1,671 | 77 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,513 | 85 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,125 | 50 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,512 | 24 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | — | #4,537 | 13 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #2,086 | 25 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 | #1,910 | 29 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | #1,596 | 35 |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 | #1,607 | 34 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 | #1,210 | 51 |
| 1975 | #1,756 | 53 | #1,160 | 53 |
| 1974 | #1,848 | 47 | #1,182 | 49 |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 | #1,329 | 39 |
| 1972 | #2,311 | 32 | #1,364 | 38 |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 | #1,526 | 32 |
| 1970 | #2,705 | 26 | #1,847 | 23 |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 | #1,861 | 20 |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 | #1,731 | 21 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | #2,132 | 14 |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 | #2,084 | 15 |
| 1964 | #2,412 | 26 | #2,114 | 15 |
| 1963 | #2,864 | 19 | #1,792 | 20 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | — | #2,900 | 9 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,042 | 16 | |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | #2,295 | 13 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | #1,766 | 20 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | #2,190 | 14 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | #2,091 | 15 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,480 | 11 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | #2,606 | 9 |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 | #2,608 | 9 |
| 1947 | #3,061 | 12 | #2,498 | 10 |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | #3,525 | 5 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | #2,862 | 7 |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 | — | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 | — | |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | — | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
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| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
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| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | — | |
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| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tobey! It came in at #4,347, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1942, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tobey is popular in 1963
No state had 5 or more boys named Tobey in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Tobey
- 598 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #8,910)
- 2,290 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #8,910)
- 4,731 spots since 2015 (#4,179 → #8,910)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 1975 at #1,160 (53 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,239 boys born in 2003 were named Tobey (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,160 in 1975, was only 1 in 29,460 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.2% of all boys named Tobey (495) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1975, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,347 (1924) | #4,347 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 59 | #2,498 (1947) | #2,945 |
| 1950s | 103 | #1,766 (1958) | #2,775 |
| 1960s | 150 | #1,731 (1968) | #2,244 |
| 1970s | 375 | #1,160 (1975) | #1,513 |
| 1980s | 144 | #1,910 (1980) | #3,580 |
| 1990s | 112 | #4,114 (1992) | #5,140 |
| 2000s | 495 | #1,513 (2003) | #2,564 |
| 2010s | 196 | #3,072 (2010) | #4,885 |
| 2020s | 59 | #6,147 (2022) | #8,066 |
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.
Tobey in 1963
Top girls' names in 1963
Top boys' names in 1963
More about 1963
girls
1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 101,448 of them was named Tobey, which outranked 62.6% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,780Vincenza20
- #2,780Violeta20
- #2,780Vivien20
- #2,864Tobey19
- #2,864Adair19
- #2,864Angelika19
- #2,864Aracelis19
- #2,960Alesha18
- #2,960Ariane18
- #2,960Armanda18
Tied with 95 names at #2,864; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 101,554 of them was named Tobey, which outranked 61.2% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,744Vernie21
- #1,744Vidal21
- #1,744Wendy21
- #1,792Tobey20
- #1,792Agapito20
- #1,792Alaric20
- #1,792Albino20
- #1,839Ann19
- #1,839Anselmo19
- #1,839Augusto19
Tied with 46 names at #1,792; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.