Tobey
Recorded 1914–2025 · United States
Tobey was most popular in 1975, when 106 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,856 that year. In 2025 it ranked #18,449, with 8 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,456 people named Tobey.
Tobey over time
How old is the name Tobey?
Tobey first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1914, which makes it about 111 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 93 of the 112 years since.
How many people are named Tobey?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,456 American births named Tobey between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,191 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Tobey in 2025?
8 American babies were named Tobey in 2025, ranking #18,449 that year.
Is Tobey getting more or less popular?
Tobey is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 9 births a year, against 25 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -62% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Tobey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Tobey is a unisex name — 30.9% of the 2,456 Americans given it were girls and 69.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 1971 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Tobey?
Roughly 2,191 Americans named Tobey are alive today — 89% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 47 years old, and half are between 22 and 55. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Tobey is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org