Bobby
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Teutonic; diminutive of Robert, famous, bright fame
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bobby is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.1K
- CACanada≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #670 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 565 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Teutonic; diminutive of Robert, famous, bright fame
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Bobby, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bobby counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Bobby | 43 |
| US United States | #270 | 163,860 | 1 in 2K | 159K | Bobby | 565 |
| PH Philippines | #538 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Bobby | 108 |
| GB United Kingdom | #388 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 652 | Bobby | 255 |
| IT Italy | #514 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 1 | Bobby | 39 |
| CA Canada | #329 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 4 | Bobby | 247 |
| SG Singapore | #133 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Bobby | 86 |
| IE Ireland | #171 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 215 | Bobby | 87 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bobby is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A police officer.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Bobby är en engelsk smekform till → Robert. Med stavningen Bobbie används det även som kvinnonamn.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Variante anglaise de Bob, diminutif de Robert.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, Diminutive of Bob/Robert
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In French, Diminutif de Robert.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bobby Robsonb. 1933GBEnglish association football player and manager (1933-2009)
- Bobby Charltonb. 1937GBEnglish association football player and manager (1937–2023)
- Bobby Driscollb. 1937USAmerican actor (1937–1968)
- Bobby Hullb. 1939CACanadian ice hockey player (1939–2023)
- Bobby Mooreb. 1941GBEnglish association football player (1941–1993)
- Bobby Orrb. 1948CACanadian ice hockey player
- Bobby Brownb. 1969USAmerican R&B singer (born 1969)
- Bobby Cannavaleb. 1970USAmerican actor (born 1970)
- Bobby Jindalb. 1971USAmerican politician and 55th governor of Louisiana (born 1971)
- Bobby Lashleyb. 1976USAmerican professional wrestler and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 41 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Bobby?
- In the etymology graph, Robert, Roberto and Bobbie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Robin and Bob.
- Is Bobby a male or female name?
- Bobby is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Bobby mean, and where does it come from?
- Teutonic; diminutive of Robert, famous, bright fame Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Bobby?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bobby have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Bobby in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bobby.
- How common is the name Bobby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 163,860 people named Bobby in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Bobby compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Bobby is the 133rd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bobby?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bobbyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bobby” — the 133rd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.