Tobie
Recorded 1886–2025 · United States
Tobie was most popular in 1975, when 102 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,904 that year. In 2025 it ranked #17,163, with 9 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,321 people named Tobie.
Tobie over time
How old is the name Tobie?
Tobie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1886, which makes it about 139 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 107 of the 140 years since.
How many people are named Tobie?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,321 American births named Tobie 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 1,942 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Tobie in 2025?
9 American babies were named Tobie in 2025, ranking #17,163 that year.
Is Tobie getting more or less popular?
Tobie is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 9 births a year across 2021–2025 against 14 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
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 Tobie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Tobie is a unisex name — 59.9% of the 2,321 Americans given it were girls and 40.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 2007 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 49% girls and 51% 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 Tobie?
Roughly 1,942 Americans named Tobie are alive today — 84% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 50 years old, and half are between 29 and 57.
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.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org