Tobi

Where Tobi comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tobi.

  • Vowel-ended
Tobi through the years
  1. 1934
    First appearance
    #3,802 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #886
    150 babies named Tobi, the most in any year.
  3. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,633.
  4. 1994
    Tobi Bakre born
    Nigerian actor
  5. 1997
    Tobi Amusan born
    Nigerian athletics competitor
  6. 2020
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Tobi Amusan · Nigerian athletics competitor, born 1997
  • Tobi Bakre · Nigerian actor, born 1994
  • Tobi Vail · American musician, born 1969
  • Tobi Makinde · Nigerian actor and filmmaker, born 1991
  • Tobi Adebayo-Rowling · British association football player, born 1996

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.