Tobin

At the 2020 census, 17,588 Americans bore the surname Tobin — 2,012th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,000.

By the numbers

People: 17,588
Rank: 2,012th
How common: 1 in 17,000
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

From Irish Tóibín, from Anglo-Norman de Saint Aubyn (compare Saint Aubin), from Latin Sanctus Albīnus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tobin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.0%
Black, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Tobin

James Tobin (1918–2002)American economist
Tobin Bell (born 1942)American actor
Amon Tobin (born 1972)Brazilian musician
Joseph William Tobin (born 1952)Roman Catholic archbishop from the United States
Becca Tobin (born 1986)American actress and singer
Genevieve Tobin (1899–1995)American actress
Alex Tobin (born 1965)Australian soccer player
Thomas Joseph Tobin (born 1948)Catholic bishop

People named Tobin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tobin

Also a first name

Tobin has been given to 5,737 American babies as a first name since 1941, peaking in 2013. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.