Hobson
The boy's name Hobson has been in the national records since 1898, with 436 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 100 Hobsons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hobson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 436
- Estimated living today
- 100
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1898
- Best rank
- 307th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1898
How old the living Hobsons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 436 babies given the name since 1898, about 100 are alive — 22 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Hobsons
- Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886)American architect
People named Hobson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hobson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hobson is most concentrated in Alabama (45.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1898
The most popular boys’ names the year Hobson peaked:
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Hobson against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.