In 2025, 9 US girls were named Tobie, making it the 10,838th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,229 places from #12,067 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 girls named Tobie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,349, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 80. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,896 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Tobie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #958, reached in 1904. The most boys given the name in a single year was 27, in 1973. For comparison, it was #7,987 in 2015 and #2,195 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tobie in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 2,321 US babies have been given the name, 60% of them girls and 40% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 653 babies named Tobie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 43 US girls were named Tobie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls 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), Tobi (3,567 babies since 1880) and Tobey (2,456 babies since 1880).