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Bobbi vs Bobbijo

American parents have registered 24,280 Bobbis since 1880, against 1,242 Bobbijos. Bobbi is still ahead, with 109 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bobbi against Bobbijo, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bobbi Bobbijo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Bobbi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1932 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Bobbi had 125 and Bobbijo had 18.

Side by side

  Bobbi Bobbijo
Total US births 24,2801,242
Most in one year 85363
Babies in 2025 109under 5
Estimated living today 22,0001,200
Median age today 4946
Peak year 19711975
Best rank 314th girls1,571st girls
Rank in 2025 1,833rdunranked
First recorded 19321961
Girls / boys 24,216 / 641,242 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bobbis alive today are over 49; half the Bobbijos are over 46. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bobbi and Bobbijo.