Meaning not yet researched.
Bob: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #75 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #75 in 1934; #9,845 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bob in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,845 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #75.
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Bob: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #75 in 1934 · most boys in one year: 2,826 (1959).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Bob, making it the 9,845th most common boys’ name of the year, up 204 places from #10,049 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 boys named Bob in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #75, reached in 1934. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,826, in 1959. For comparison, it was #6,041 in 2015 and #204 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bob in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 46 babies. In all, 93,308 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 23,399 babies named Bob.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US boys were named Bob; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Robert (4,869,849 babies since 1880), Bobby (324,728 babies since 1880), Roberto (113,477 babies since 1880) and Rob (8,775 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bobbe, Bub and Bobb are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Rob and Robert.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bobbe (567), Bub (54), Bobb (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #9,845 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,049 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,345 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #12,611 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,142 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,134 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,129 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,406 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,041 |
| 2014 | — | — | 6 | #10,887 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,820 |
| 2012 | — | — | 8 | #8,968 |
| 2011 | — | — | 14 | #5,980 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,649 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,444 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,279 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,020 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,508 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,826 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,440 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,307 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,526 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,141 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,871 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,367 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,502 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,456 |
| 1996 | — | — | 31 | #2,489 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,516 |
| 1994 | — | — | 37 | #2,185 |
| 1993 | — | — | 38 | #2,095 |
| 1992 | — | — | 42 | #1,920 |
| 1991 | — | — | 66 | #1,396 |
| 1990 | — | — | 53 | #1,567 |
| 1989 | — | — | 56 | #1,477 |
| 1988 | — | — | 57 | #1,375 |
| 1987 | — | — | 56 | #1,316 |
| 1986 | — | — | 62 | #1,219 |
| 1985 | — | — | 73 | #1,083 |
| 1984 | — | — | 76 | #1,023 |
| 1983 | — | — | 89 | #936 |
| 1982 | — | — | 92 | #933 |
| 1981 | — | — | 84 | #986 |
| 1980 | — | — | 106 | #861 |
| 1979 | — | — | 118 | #798 |
| 1978 | — | — | 110 | #813 |
| 1977 | — | — | 120 | #778 |
| 1976 | — | — | 139 | #706 |
| 1975 | — | — | 167 | #625 |
| 1974 | — | — | 170 | #618 |
| 1973 | — | — | 207 | #542 |
| 1972 | — | — | 221 | #535 |
| 1971 | — | — | 325 | #449 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,102 | 406 | #399 |
| 1969 | — | — | 425 | #380 |
| 1968 | — | — | 477 | #354 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,330 | 535 | #324 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,656 | 684 | #280 |
| 1965 | — | — | 1,003 | #230 |
| 1964 | — | — | 1,432 | #198 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,942 | 1,847 | #167 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,666 | 2,163 | #152 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,651 | 2,504 | #141 |
| 1960 | — | — | 2,719 | #131 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,666 | 2,826 | #128 |
| 1958 | — | — | 2,518 | #139 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,433 | 1,814 | #171 |
| 1956 | — | — | 1,020 | #228 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,274 | 799 | #248 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,820 | 697 | #266 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,737 | 690 | #264 |
| 1952 | — | — | 756 | #247 |
| 1951 | — | — | 806 | #237 |
| 1950 | — | — | 976 | #204 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,726 | 1,466 | #162 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,311 | 1,960 | #141 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,378 | 2,514 | #115 |
| 1946 | — | — | 2,493 | #107 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,620 | 2,176 | #107 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,110 | 2,133 | #109 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,525 | 2,275 | #110 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,783 | 2,203 | #110 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,603 | 2,074 | #103 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,433 | 2,082 | #99 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,166 | 2,244 | #89 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,483 | 2,204 | #94 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,207 | 2,364 | #81 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,135 | 2,408 | #77 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,758 | 2,389 | #81 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,190 | 2,478 | #75 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,419 | 2,222 | #82 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,047 | 2,424 | #79 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,778 | 2,318 | #78 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,436 | 2,242 | #88 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,122 | 2,103 | #89 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,789 | 2,093 | #95 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,441 | 1,970 | #100 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,291 | 1,778 | #102 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,501 | 1,369 | #129 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,054 | 1,167 | #142 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,943 | 916 | #164 |
| 1922 | — | — | 787 | #179 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,197 | 798 | #178 |
| 1920 | — | — | 710 | #189 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,318 | 548 | #222 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,908 | 477 | #245 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,153 | 352 | #272 |
| 1916 | — | — | 304 | #296 |
| 1915 | — | — | 296 | #292 |
| 1914 | — | — | 217 | #307 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,249 | 164 | #314 |
| 1912 | — | — | 141 | #306 |
| 1911 | — | — | 76 | #308 |
| 1910 | — | — | 103 | #229 |
| 1909 | — | — | 58 | #299 |
| 1908 | — | — | 77 | #242 |
| 1907 | — | — | 77 | #231 |
| 1906 | — | — | 69 | #235 |
| 1905 | — | — | 58 | #259 |
| 1904 | — | — | 65 | #234 |
| 1903 | — | — | 66 | #223 |
| 1902 | — | — | 64 | #225 |
| 1901 | — | — | 49 | #245 |
| 1900 | — | — | 98 | #196 |
| 1899 | — | — | 59 | #219 |
| 1898 | — | — | 61 | #224 |
| 1897 | — | — | 53 | #238 |
| 1896 | — | — | 45 | #271 |
| 1895 | — | — | 54 | #243 |
| 1894 | — | — | 48 | #249 |
| 1893 | — | — | 59 | #222 |
| 1892 | — | — | 61 | #223 |
| 1891 | — | — | 55 | #214 |
| 1890 | — | — | 53 | #227 |
| 1889 | — | — | 51 | #226 |
| 1888 | — | — | 59 | #228 |
| 1887 | — | — | 74 | #172 |
| 1886 | — | — | 66 | #200 |
| 1885 | — | — | 52 | #227 |
| 1884 | — | — | 50 | #240 |
| 1883 | — | — | 62 | #190 |
| 1882 | — | — | 59 | #212 |
| 1881 | — | — | 50 | #218 |
| 1880 | — | — | 46 | #244 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).