Bobbi

Where Bobbi comes from

The dictionaries list Bobbi as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Roberta — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1932
    First appearance
    #3,901 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Peak, #314
    844 babies named Bobbi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    Bobbi Eden born
    Dutch pornographic actress
  4. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #487.
  5. 1993
    Bobbi Kristina Brown born
    American television personality (1993–2015), daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
Namesakes
  • Bobbi Kristina Brown · American television personality (1993–2015), daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, 1993–2015
  • Bobbi Eden · Dutch pornographic actress, born 1980
  • Bobbi Starr · American pornographic actress, born 1983
  • Bobbi Brown · American professional makeup artist and businessperson, born 1957
  • Bobbi Sue Luther · American actress and model, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.