Bobbie
Pronounced B AA1 B IY0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 1934
- 142 years in use
- 2 spellings
How popular is Bobbie?
Bobbie is a girls' name, and first appears in 1883. It has been given to 122,307 children — the 324th most common girls' name on record.
Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1934, when 2,448 children were given it.
Two other spellings are counted in that total — Bobbi and Bobby — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Bobbie and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Bobbi
- Bobby
Nicknames
Bobbie is itself a short form of Roberta.
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- B AA1 B IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Bobbie
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Bobbie
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Bobbie?
- Bobbie ranks 324th among girls' names in US records, with 122,307 births since 1883. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,253.
- Is Bobbie a unisex name?
- No. Bobbie is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Bobbie most popular?
- 1934, when 2,448 children were given the name. It has been in use for 142 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Bobbie spelled?
- Bobbi, Bobby. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.