Tobin
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #3,181 for boys in 2025, 37 births
Given to boys 97.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1971 · 132 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,570since 1941
Tobin over time
Rank among boys' names. Tobin has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,181 | 37 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #2,789 | 46 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #2,575 | 51 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #2,325 | 61 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #1,915 | 79 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #1,758 | 87 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,809 | 84 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #1,804 | 84 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #1,456 | 118 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #1,346 | 130 |
| 2014 | — | #1,198 | 154 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,115 | 163 | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #1,266 | 139 |
| 2011 | — | #1,271 | 135 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,195 | 150 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,472 | 113 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,251 | 139 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,188 | 148 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,447 | 107 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,362 | 110 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,593 | 82 | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #1,372 | 98 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #1,571 | 78 |
| 2001 | — | #1,699 | 68 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,758 | 63 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,063 | 46 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,094 | 44 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,468 | 73 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,145 | 39 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,346 | 33 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,219 | 36 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,007 | 40 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,046 | 38 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,768 | 45 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,012 | 37 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,452 | 57 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,587 | 44 |
| 1986 | — | #1,363 | 52 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,644 | 38 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,606 | 37 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,375 | 46 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,382 | 47 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,456 | 43 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,391 | 46 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,116 | 64 | |
| 1978 | — | #869 | 98 | |
| 1977 | — | #822 | 107 | |
| 1976 | — | #828 | 102 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #736 | 127 |
| 1974 | — | #758 | 114 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #737 | 118 |
| 1972 | — | #846 | 90 | |
| 1971 | — | #719 | 132 | |
| 1970 | — | #747 | 122 | |
| 1969 | — | #736 | 113 | |
| 1968 | — | #821 | 81 | |
| 1967 | — | #948 | 58 | |
| 1966 | — | #901 | 64 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,129 | 44 | |
| 1964 | — | #901 | 71 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,005 | 57 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,147 | 45 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,097 | 51 | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | #833 | 83 |
| 1959 | — | #1,034 | 55 | |
| 1958 | — | #815 | 85 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,250 | 39 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,568 | 25 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,682 | 21 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,496 | 26 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,287 | 12 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,010 | 15 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,774 | 18 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,207 | 12 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #2,523 | 9 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tobin! It came in at #3,505, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tobin is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,171 · 1 in 23,905
- California#1,336 · 1 in 29,845
Best ever in a state: #232 in Nebraska, 1969.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,171 | 6 | 1 in 23,905 |
| California | #1,336 | 8 | 1 in 29,845 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Tobin
- 392 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #3,181)
- 1,423 spots since 2020 (#1,758 → #3,181)
- 1,835 spots since 2015 (#1,346 → #3,181)
- Biggest jump: 435 spots in 1958 (#1,250 → #815)
- Biggest drop: 264 spots in 1961 (#833 → #1,097)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1971 at #719 (132 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1966–1978
- Highest: 1 in 11,605 boys born in 2013 were named Tobin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 46,164 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #719 in 1971, was only 1 in 13,397 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.2% of all boys named Tobin (1,236) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 33 | #2,523 (1942) | #3,109 |
| 1950s | 308 | #815 (1958) | #1,612 |
| 1960s | 667 | #736 (1969) | #952 |
| 1970s | 1,074 | #719 (1971) | #818 |
| 1980s | 454 | #1,363 (1986) | #1,487 |
| 1990s | 431 | #1,468 (1997) | #2,017 |
| 2000s | 1,006 | #1,188 (2007) | #1,471 |
| 2010s | 1,236 | #1,115 (2013) | #1,435 |
| 2020s | 361 | #1,758 (2020) | #2,424 |
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.
Tobin in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 347,726 of them was named Tobin, which outranked 14.6% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,938 names at #11,325; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 42,431 of them was named Tobin, which outranked 80.5% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,563Skye45
- #1,563Thurman45
- #1,563Toney45
- #1,587Tobin44
- #1,587Ace44
- #1,587Armond44
- #1,587Blaze44
- #1,612Arnaldo43
- #1,612Avrohom43
- #1,612Benjiman43
Tied with 24 names at #1,587; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.