Tobe
About 978 American babies have been named Tobe since 1880, most of them around 1916. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 340 Tobes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tobe boys named Tobe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 978
- Estimated living today
- 340
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 1,594th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 29 / 949
How old the living Tobes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 978 babies given the name since 1880, about 340 are alive — 35 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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 Tobes
- Tobe Hooper (1943–2017)American film director, screenwriter and producer
People named Tobe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tobe is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Tobe peaked:
Tobe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Tobe | 316 | 386th |
| England and Wales boys | Tobe | 3 | 4,052nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tobe: rank by region
In 2025, Tobe was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Tobe | 340 | 17 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Tobe appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (132nd) and Province of Antwerp (341st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Tobe against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.