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Tobin

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Tobin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. Its best rank was 720th, in 1971.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
460.00% of boys
Peak year
2013163 births
Best rank
#720in 1971
Since 1941
5,700people given the name
Babies named Tobin, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

5,533 boys have been named Tobin in the United States since 1941, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2013, with 163 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 1996, and the 2010s alone account for 22%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 167 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Tobin
1940s33
1950s308
1960s667
1970s1,074
1980s454
1990s431
2000s1,006
2010s1,236
2020s324

In 2013, its biggest year

Tobin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2013 were Noah, Jacob, Liam, Mason and William. See all of 2013.

Names that rose and fell with Tobin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.