Meaning not yet researched.
Tobi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,803 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,803 in 1971; #3,649 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Tobi in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,649 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #2,803.
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Tobi: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,803 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 36 (2023).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Tobi, making it the 3,649th most common boys’ name of the year, up 538 places from #4,187 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 26 boys named Tobi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,803, reached in 1971. The most boys given the name in a single year was 36, in 2023. For comparison, it was #5,268 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Tobi, making it the 8,313th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,405 places from #6,908 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 17 girls named Tobi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #888, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 150. For comparison, it was #8,405 in 2015 and #2,246 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tobi in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1934 with 6 babies. In all, 3,567 US babies have been given the name, 82% of them girls and 18% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,043 babies named Tobi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 220 US boys were named Tobi; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Toby (43,233 babies since 1880), Tobias (29,322 babies since 1880), Tobie (2,321 babies since 1880) and Tobey (2,456 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tobiah and Tobbie are summarised on this page.
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: Tobiah (683), Tobbie (39).
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 Tobi 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 | 13 | #8,313 | 31 | #3,649 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,908 | 26 | #4,187 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,145 | 36 | #3,339 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,171 | 29 | #3,868 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,420 | 25 | #4,225 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,614 | 20 | #4,844 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,680 | 16 | #5,786 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,361 | 19 | #5,089 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,737 | 10 | #8,087 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,570 | 8 | #9,587 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,405 | 18 | #5,268 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,893 | 24 | #4,246 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,533 | 19 | #4,958 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,187 | 19 | #5,023 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,406 | 12 | #6,967 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,250 | 11 | #7,537 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,659 | 13 | #6,773 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,722 | 12 | #7,147 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,069 | 9 | #8,852 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,458 | 12 | #6,872 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,820 | 10 | #7,594 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,939 | 7 | #9,845 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,723 | 7 | #9,498 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,458 | 5 | #12,332 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,934 | 9 | #7,464 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,519 | 13 | #5,557 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,864 | 6 | #9,801 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,728 | 10 | #6,271 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,442 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,934 | 6 | #8,909 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,231 | 7 | #7,696 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,666 | — | — |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,464 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,641 | 5 | #9,512 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,225 | 5 | #9,375 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,532 | 6 | #7,827 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,487 | 11 | #4,425 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,466 | 10 | #4,552 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,253 | 8 | #4,960 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,718 | 5 | #7,206 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,483 | 6 | #6,174 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,793 | 10 | #4,050 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,651 | 8 | #4,530 |
| 1977 | 76 | #1,466 | 7 | #5,082 |
| 1976 | 109 | #1,111 | 15 | #2,813 |
| 1975 | 150 | #888 | 11 | #3,415 |
| 1974 | 136 | #927 | 12 | #3,109 |
| 1973 | 82 | #1,274 | 9 | #3,671 |
| 1972 | 108 | #1,070 | 11 | #3,138 |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,265 | 13 | #2,803 |
| 1970 | 92 | #1,223 | 9 | #3,497 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,398 | 9 | #3,295 |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1967 | 54 | #1,536 | 5 | #4,498 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,513 | 7 | #3,515 |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1963 | 66 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,782 | — | — |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,247 | — | — |
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).