as a First Name
Pet form of Robert (for its development, see Bob), now also used as an independent given name. It is also sometimes used as a girl's name, as a variant spelling of Bobbie.
| 262nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 235,807
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 314,767
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Bobby per capita
- 1936
- marked the height of its popularity
2%
98%
51%
55+
55+
37%
30-54
30-54
8%
13-29
13-29
4%
0-12
0-12
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