Bobbie

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bobbie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bobbie: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #238 in 2004, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
82times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#238highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Bobbie's record

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#448
1997	#489
1998	#480
1999	#557
2000	#557
2001	#435
2002	#557
2003	#538
2004	#538
2005	#695
2006	#704
2007	#655
2008	#790
2009	#806
2010	#1013
2011	#841
2012	#722
2013	#1075
2014	#859
2015	#760
2016	#804
2017	#889
2018	#670
2019	#554
2020	#643
2021	#567
2022	#596
2023	#540
2024	#676

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #541 among girls in Scotland, #676 among girls in England and Wales, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #448 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2024
Highest recorded position: #238 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 2004–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Bobbie appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 663 births with the name.

Bobbie across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bobbie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#976 (1996)	#704 (2012)	#924 (2024)	29 of 29	663 (1996–2024)	47 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#448 (1996)	#435 (2001)	#676 (2024)	29 of 29	1,551 (1996–2024)	73 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#238 (2004)	#238 (2004)	#407 (2024)	3 of 21	12 (2004–2024)	6 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#677 (2004)	#736 (2024)	8 of 21	25 (2004–2024)	4 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#701 (2009)	#516 (2023)	#829 (2025)	9 of 17	34 (2009–2025)	6 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#358 (2016)	#358 (2016)	#392 (2020)	3 of 5	10 (2016–2020)	4 (2016)

Bobbie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bobbie in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	32	4 of 10	8
2000s	150	10 of 10	15
2010sbusiest	346	10 of 10	35
2020s	135	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Bobbie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #238 in Northern Ireland in 2004.

Bobbie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#676	56	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#924	34	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#540	72	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#596	64	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1084	26	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#567	69	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1218	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#643	58	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#856	34	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#554	73	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1001	28	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#670	60	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#870	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#889	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#743	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#804	48	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#946	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#760	51	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#950	31	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#859	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#916	32	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1075	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#804	38	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#722	56	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#704	47	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#841	43	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1109	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#806	43	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1133	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#790	43	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#850	32	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#655	53	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#704	44	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1224	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#695	44	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#538	59	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#815	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#538	57	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#557	53	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#435	70	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#557	49	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#557	50	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#480	60	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#489	57	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#448	66	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#976	14	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#238	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #238, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 73 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Bobbi · #291, 30y
Bobby · #27, 41y
Bobby-George · #3362, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Leia · #238, 30y
Sierra · #237, 27y
Amirah · #240, 30y
Andy · #236, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alix · #238, 29y
Amy-Lee · #238, 16y
Ciarrai · #238, 13y
Erinn · #238, 28y

Bobbie was ranked #238 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bobbie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bobbie without appearing here.

Bobbie moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1299 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1224 and #2538.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1224 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1440 and #2435.
Garry Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1962 and #1771 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #815 and #1732.
Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1001 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #856 and #1723.

Moved ahead of Bobbie

Lachlan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #976 and #1040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1578 and #678.
Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1578 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1642 and #924.
Filip Compare
In 2004 they stood at #815 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1299 and #615.
Saoirse Compare
In 2012 they stood at #722 and #738 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1075 and #515.

Moved the opposite way to Bobbie

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bobbie went from #448 to #676 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bobbie went from #448 to #676 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bobbie went from #448 to #676 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bobbie went from #448 to #676 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Bobbie

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bobbie went from #448 to #676 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bobbie went from #448 to #676 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bobbie went from #448 to #676 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bobbie went from #448 to #676 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #238 in Northern Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bobbie

Bobbie at a glance

What stands out in Bobbie's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bobbie across 6 official records

Bobbie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bobbie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Bobbie and the names beside it

Bobbie moved ahead of

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Bobbie at a glance

What stands out in Bobbie's record

Bobbie across 6 official records

Bobbie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Bobbie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Bobbie

Bobbie and the names beside it

Bobbie moved ahead of

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