Meaning not yet researched.
Tobin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #720 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #720 in 1971; #3,231 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tobin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,231 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #720.
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Tobin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #720 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 163 (2013).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Tobin, making it the 3,231st most common boys’ name of the year, down 404 places from #2,827 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 46 boys named Tobin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #720, reached in 1971. The most boys given the name in a single year was 163, in 2013. For comparison, it was #1,352 in 2015 and #2,313 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tobin in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 5 babies. In all, 5,737 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,308 babies named Tobin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 726 US boys were named Tobin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tobyn, Toben and Tobian 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tobyn (330), Toben (128), Tobian (12), Tobiann (7).
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 Tobin 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 | — | — | 37 | #3,231 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,097 | 46 | #2,827 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,025 | 51 | #2,605 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,488 | 61 | #2,348 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,664 | 79 | #1,929 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,492 | 87 | #1,765 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,069 | 79 | #1,897 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,521 | 84 | #1,821 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,303 | 84 | #1,808 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,173 | 118 | #1,464 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,406 | 130 | #1,352 |
| 2014 | — | — | 154 | #1,200 |
| 2013 | — | — | 163 | #1,118 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,865 | 139 | #1,272 |
| 2011 | — | — | 135 | #1,277 |
| 2010 | — | — | 150 | #1,199 |
| 2009 | — | — | 113 | #1,483 |
| 2008 | — | — | 139 | #1,259 |
| 2007 | — | — | 148 | #1,195 |
| 2006 | — | — | 107 | #1,452 |
| 2005 | — | — | 110 | #1,371 |
| 2004 | — | — | 82 | #1,603 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,267 | 98 | #1,379 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,911 | 78 | #1,586 |
| 2001 | — | — | 68 | #1,708 |
| 2000 | — | — | 63 | #1,766 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,094 |
| 1998 | — | — | 44 | #2,123 |
| 1997 | — | — | 73 | #1,477 |
| 1996 | — | — | 39 | #2,177 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,396 |
| 1994 | — | — | 36 | #2,257 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,045 |
| 1992 | — | — | 38 | #2,083 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,793 |
| 1990 | — | — | 37 | #2,043 |
| 1989 | — | — | 57 | #1,474 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,760 | 44 | #1,642 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,132 | 44 | #1,610 |
| 1986 | — | — | 52 | #1,382 |
| 1985 | — | — | 38 | #1,667 |
| 1984 | — | — | 37 | #1,627 |
| 1983 | — | — | 46 | #1,397 |
| 1982 | — | — | 47 | #1,393 |
| 1981 | — | — | 43 | #1,476 |
| 1980 | — | — | 46 | #1,409 |
| 1979 | — | — | 64 | #1,127 |
| 1978 | — | — | 98 | #873 |
| 1977 | — | — | 107 | #827 |
| 1976 | — | — | 102 | #831 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,502 | 127 | #740 |
| 1974 | — | — | 114 | #760 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,354 | 118 | #739 |
| 1972 | — | — | 90 | #850 |
| 1971 | — | — | 132 | #720 |
| 1970 | — | — | 122 | #747 |
| 1969 | — | — | 113 | #739 |
| 1968 | — | — | 81 | #823 |
| 1967 | — | — | 58 | #954 |
| 1966 | — | — | 64 | #912 |
| 1965 | — | — | 44 | #1,142 |
| 1964 | — | — | 71 | #904 |
| 1963 | — | — | 57 | #1,011 |
| 1962 | — | — | 45 | #1,168 |
| 1961 | — | — | 51 | #1,105 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,337 | 83 | #834 |
| 1959 | — | — | 55 | #1,048 |
| 1958 | — | — | 85 | #819 |
| 1957 | — | — | 39 | #1,265 |
| 1956 | — | — | 25 | #1,605 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,722 |
| 1954 | — | — | 26 | #1,522 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,382 |
| 1952 | — | — | 15 | #2,070 |
| 1951 | — | — | 18 | #1,832 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,313 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,659 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,990 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,859 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,698 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,962 |
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).