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.
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 1970
Top girls' names in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
girls
1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 19,002 of them was named Tobi, which outranked 87.0% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,208Loraine93
- #1,208May93
- #1,208Roseanne93
- #1,212Tobi92
- #1,212Alesia92
- #1,212Becki92
- #1,212Buffie92
- #1,224Bernadine91
- #1,224Celena91
- #1,224Charissa91
Tied with 11 names at #1,212; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 206,470 of them was named Tobi, which outranked 39.6% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,071Winthrop10
- #3,071Yves10
- #3,071Zvi10
- #3,282Tobi9
- #3,282Adron9
- #3,282Alastair9
- #3,282Alcindor9
- #3,521Abie8
- #3,521Adams8
- #3,521Adriel8
Tied with 238 names at #3,282; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.