Tobin

Where Tobin comes from

Tobin hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1941
    First appearance
    #3,505 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Tobin Bell born
    American actor
  3. 1971
    Peak, #719
    132 babies named Tobin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,116.
  5. 1988
    Tobin Heath born
    American soccer player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tobin Bell · American actor, born 1942
  • Tobin Heath · American soccer player, born 1988
  • Tobin J. Marks · American chemist, born 1944
  • Tobin Esperance · amerikanischer Jazz-Bassist, born 1979
  • Tobin Sprout · American musician, born 1955

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.