Tobi

#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
Given to girls 82.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
1975 · 150 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,936
since 1934

Tobi over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201934peak #886, 1975peak #2,686, 1971girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,88513#3,58331
2024#6,64217#4,07226
2023#5,96020#3,29336
2022#10,3839#3,77429
2021#8,02413#4,11825
2020#6,32518#4,69820
2019#6,41418#5,55516
2018#10,5459#4,91819
2017#8,29913#7,54610
2016#7,23016#8,8168
2015#8,00814#5,05818
2014#10,12910#4,13824
2013#8,13514#4,80419
2012#7,80415#4,86219
2011#7,11817#6,57812
2010#7,88015#7,08711
2009#7,34117#6,43613
2008#7,40817#6,76312
2007#7,73316#8,1739
2006#7,14217#6,46012
2005#4,70428#7,09610
2004#4,81627#8,9277
2003#3,65538#8,6437
2002#3,39440#10,6675
2001#3,86433#6,9359
2000#4,40027#5,29713
1999#4,71823#8,7046
1998#3,64832#5,84010
1997#3,36534—
1996#3,83128#7,9716
1995#3,28534—
1994#4,11525#6,9687
1993#4,52422—
1992#5,26718—
1991#4,49722#8,2365
1990#4,12024#8,1175
1989#5,28616#6,9416
1988#4,30820#4,16211
1987#4,28319#4,23910
1986#3,36026—
1985#3,00830—
1984#2,91530—
1983#3,24225—
1982#3,17227#4,5938
1981#2,65734#6,2625
1980#2,44039#5,5256
1979#2,72432#3,81010
1978#1,63365#4,1578
1977#1,45176#4,5827
1976#1,104109#2,70915
1975#886150#3,24611
1974#924136#2,94612
1973#1,26682#3,4459
1972#1,065108#2,99111
1971#1,25388#2,68613
1970#1,21292#3,2829
1969#1,38569#3,0629
1968#1,38765—
1967#1,52454#3,9665
1966#1,48855#3,2497
1965#1,50055—
1964#1,74744—
1963#1,36166—
1962#1,80740—
1961#1,78841—
1960#1,88736—
1959#1,88135—
1958#1,87234—
1957#1,72839—
1956#1,54847—
1955#1,83933—
1954#1,94929—
1953#2,59517—
1952#2,07424—
1951#1,88527—
1950#2,18520—
1949#2,51416—
1948#2,49116—
1947#2,35418—
1946#2,31817—
1945#2,59812—
1944#2,40114—
1943#3,4938—
1942#2,66612—
1941#3,5597—
1940#3,5037—
1939#3,1458—
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First appearance
1934

The first year at least five girls were named Tobi! It came in at #3,802, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1935–1936, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Tobi is popular in 1934

No state had 5 or more girls named Tobi in 1934, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Tobi
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,243 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #7,885)
  • 1,560 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #7,885)
  • 123 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #7,885)
  • Biggest jump: 342 spots in 1974 (#1,266 → #924)
  • Biggest drop: 218 spots in 1976 (#886 → #1,104)
Rise & fade · girls
41 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1934
  • Peaked 1975 at #886 (150 births)
  • Births halved by 1978, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1974–1975
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,719
  • Highest: 1 in 9,719 girls born in 1975 were named Tobi (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 31.9% of all girls named Tobi (938) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2020
  • Mostly girls until 2019, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s22#3,145 (1939)#3,364
1940s127#2,318 (1946)#2,790
1950s305#1,548 (1956)#1,956
1960s525#1,361 (1963)#1,587
1970s938#886 (1975)#1,352
1980s266#2,440 (1980)#3,467
1990s262#3,285 (1995)#4,137
2000s260#3,394 (2002)#5,446
2010s141#6,414 (2019)#8,156
2020s90#5,960 (2023)#7,537

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

Tobi in 1934

girls
#3,802
6 births · 1 in 174,038 girls

Top girls' names in 1934

  1. #1Mary56,929
  2. #2Betty31,089
  3. #3Barbara29,239
  4. #4Shirley22,841
  5. #5Dorothy21,281
  6. #6Patricia20,844
  7. #7Joan19,465
  8. #8Margaret15,144
  9. #9Helen14,100
  10. #10Nancy13,520
  11. #3,802Tobi6
More about 1934

girls

1,044,225 girls got a published name in 1934; 1 in 174,038 of them was named Tobi, which outranked 23.5% of the 4,973 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tobi
  1. #3,449Zelia7
  2. #3,449Zelphia7
  3. #3,449Zilla7
  4. #3,802Tobi6
  5. #3,802Adalene6
  6. #3,802Adria6
  7. #3,802Agueda6
  8. #4,286Adalyn5
  9. #4,286Adelma5
  10. #4,286Adrene5

Tied with 483 names at #3,802; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1933
Risers
  1. ↑ 571Luann#1,442 → #871
  2. ↑ 469Alison#1,442 → #973
  3. ↑ 439Golda#1,364 → #925
  4. ↑ 350Ronald#1,244 → #894
  5. ↑ 346Gale#1,102 → #756
Fallers
  1. ↓ 685Nira#463 → #1,148
  2. ↓ 342Vina#782 → #1,124
  3. ↓ 316Zita#947 → #1,263
  4. ↓ 299Myrtie#834 → #1,133
  5. ↓ 278Theola#985 → #1,263

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1934 →