Meaning not yet researched.
Tobey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,167 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,167 in 1975; #9,619 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tobey in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,619 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #1,167.
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Tobey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,167 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 85 (2003).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Tobey, making it the 9,619th most common boys’ name of the year, down 698 places from #8,921 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 boys named Tobey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,167, reached in 1975. The most boys given the name in a single year was 85, in 2003. For comparison, it was #4,285 in 2015 and #4,152 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Tobey in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,776, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 53. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #4,287 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tobey in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 2,456 US babies have been given the name, 31% of them girls and 69% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 668 babies named Tobey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 94 US boys were named Tobey; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Toby (43,233 babies since 1880), Tobi (3,567 babies since 1880) and Tobie (2,321 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Tobey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,619 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,921 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #12,107 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,443 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,104 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,994 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #8,097 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #7,059 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,689 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,285 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,120 |
| 2013 | — | — | 21 | #4,603 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,994 |
| 2011 | — | — | 28 | #3,782 |
| 2010 | — | — | 37 | #3,122 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,796 |
| 2008 | — | — | 39 | #3,053 |
| 2007 | — | — | 46 | #2,680 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,824 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,987 | 68 | #1,885 |
| 2004 | — | — | 77 | #1,686 |
| 2003 | — | — | 85 | #1,528 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,149 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,610 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,903 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,292 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #5,137 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,051 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,404 | 8 | #7,071 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,702 | 10 | #5,883 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,767 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,329 | 9 | #6,181 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,445 | 14 | #4,308 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #5,066 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,110 | 11 | #4,962 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,271 | 9 | #5,563 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,645 | 14 | #3,688 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,724 | 14 | #3,495 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,473 | 8 | #5,291 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,237 | 14 | #3,382 |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,067 | 11 | #3,906 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,959 | 12 | #3,617 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,200 | 8 | #4,959 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,089 | 25 | #2,134 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,730 | 29 | #1,960 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,154 | 21 | #2,369 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,627 | 35 | #1,615 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,362 | 34 | #1,642 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,398 | 51 | #1,222 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,776 | 53 | #1,167 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,876 | 49 | #1,195 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,166 | 39 | #1,351 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,350 | 38 | #1,389 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,152 | 32 | #1,554 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,776 | 23 | #1,886 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,608 | 20 | #1,909 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,869 | 21 | #1,781 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,949 | 14 | #2,239 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,727 | 14 | #2,208 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,925 | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,468 | 15 | #2,199 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,951 | 20 | #1,837 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,812 | 6 | #4,008 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,078 |
| 1960 | — | — | 16 | #2,112 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,277 | 13 | #2,402 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,491 | 20 | #1,834 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,186 | 14 | #2,271 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,147 | 15 | #2,162 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,040 | 8 | #3,184 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,699 | 5 | #4,321 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,668 | 8 | #3,125 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,182 | 6 | #3,703 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,833 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,287 | 5 | #4,152 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,164 | 9 | #2,788 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,124 | 9 | #2,769 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,215 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,636 | 5 | #3,972 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,657 | 5 | #3,737 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,355 | 7 | #3,084 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,228 | 9 | #2,719 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,712 | 5 | #3,996 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,927 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,300 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,941 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,678 | — | — |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,898 |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,045 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,087 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,566 | — | — |
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).