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How popular is the name Bobby?

Births per year, rank history and how many Bobbies are alive today.

Bobby (male) is currently the 94th most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 544 babies given the name in 2025. This spelling of the name peaked in 2012, when 1,186 babies were given the name, the 57th most popular that year. It has declined since 2012; the 2025 figure is roughly 46% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 18,000 babies have been named Bobby, counting all spellings, in England and Wales since the 1990s. Bobby is one spelling of a name also recorded as Bobbie; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Bobby is also a common short form of Robert, so many people called Bobby are registered under the longer name.

Across all spellings of the name, the Bobby you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Bobbies born in England and Wales are between 7 and 16, and there are at least 18,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 5.8% chance that at least one of them will be called Bobby.

How many babies are named Bobby each year?

Includes all spellings: Bobby, Bobbie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Bobby spelling rank?

Where does the Bobbie spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.