Jobe
Jobe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 872nd, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200341 births
- Best rank
- #872in 1887
- Since 1882
- 1,310people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,310 boys have been named Jobe in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 41 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 2000s alone account for 24%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jobe | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 39 | |
| 1920s | 76 | |
| 1930s | 42 | |
| 1940s | 22 | |
| 1950s | 52 | |
| 1960s | 28 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 116 | |
| 1990s | 204 | |
| 2000s | 309 | |
| 2010s | 226 | |
| 2020s | 66 |
In 2003, its biggest year
Jobe was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Jobe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Grantpeak 1997
- Issacpeak 2008
- Davispeak 2007
- Prestonpeak 2007
- Elypeak 2009
- Saulpeak 2006
- Duncanpeak 1997
- Hyrumpeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.