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Bob name popularity
Bob has been given to 93,308 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1959, when 2,834 babies got the name, and its best rank was #171 in 1934.
In 2025, 7 babies were named Bob (#20,040 in the country), 99.7% below the peak. That is down 50% from 2015.
Almost every Bob is a boy.
An estimated 44K people named Bob are alive in the US today, with a median age of 70.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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