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
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 150 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,936since 1934
Tobi 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 | #7,885 | 13 | #3,583 | 31 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #4,072 | 26 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #3,293 | 36 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #3,774 | 29 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #4,118 | 25 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #4,704 | 28 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #4,816 | 27 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #3,655 | 38 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #3,394 | 40 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #3,648 | 32 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #4,308 | 20 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #2,657 | 34 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #2,440 | 39 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #1,633 | 65 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #1,451 | 76 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #1,104 | 109 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #886 | 150 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #924 | 136 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #1,266 | 82 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #1,065 | 108 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #1,253 | 88 | #2,686 | 13 |
| 1970 | #1,212 | 92 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #1,385 | 69 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #1,387 | 65 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,524 | 54 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #1,488 | 55 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #1,500 | 55 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,747 | 44 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,361 | 66 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,807 | 40 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,788 | 41 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,887 | 36 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,881 | 35 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,872 | 34 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,728 | 39 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,548 | 47 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,839 | 33 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,949 | 29 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,074 | 24 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,885 | 27 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,185 | 20 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,514 | 16 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,354 | 18 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,318 | 17 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,598 | 12 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 | — | |
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| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 | — | |
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| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 | — | |
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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 1973
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Pennsylvania#832 · 1 in 11,259
- Texas#1,178 · 1 in 13,481
- New York#1,220 · 1 in 14,763
- California#1,350 · 1 in 16,349
Best ever in a state: #333 in Kansas, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #832 | 6 | 1 in 11,259 |
| Texas | #1,178 | 7 | 1 in 13,481 |
| New York | #1,220 | 7 | 1 in 14,763 |
| California | #1,350 | 8 | 1 in 16,349 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tobi
- 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)
- Debuted 1934
- Peaked 1975 at #886 (150 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1974–1975
- 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%)
- 31.9% of all girls named Tobi (938) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2019, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 22 | #3,145 (1939) | #3,364 |
| 1940s | 127 | #2,318 (1946) | #2,790 |
| 1950s | 305 | #1,548 (1956) | #1,956 |
| 1960s | 525 | #1,361 (1963) | #1,587 |
| 1970s | 938 | #886 (1975) | #1,352 |
| 1980s | 266 | #2,440 (1980) | #3,467 |
| 1990s | 262 | #3,285 (1995) | #4,137 |
| 2000s | 260 | #3,394 (2002) | #5,446 |
| 2010s | 141 | #6,414 (2019) | #8,156 |
| 2020s | 90 | #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 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 17,783 of them was named Tobi, which outranked 87.1% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,254Lashawnda83
- #1,254Shalanda83
- #1,254Tommie83
- #1,266Tobi82
- #1,266Annamarie82
- #1,266Becki82
- #1,266Cameron82
- #1,276Carina81
- #1,276Davida81
- #1,276Devon81
Tied with 9 names at #1,266; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 173,175 of them was named Tobi, which outranked 41.4% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,223Westly10
- #3,223York10
- #3,223Yul10
- #3,445Tobi9
- #3,445Abu9
- #3,445Achilles9
- #3,445Adams9
- #3,694Abayomi8
- #3,694Adarryll8
- #3,694Adin8
Tied with 248 names at #3,445; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.