Bòb
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bòb is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.
- CACanada≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.1K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bòb itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #799 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 592 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
51,102 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bob in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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)From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bòb 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #315 | 51,102 | 1 in 6.5K | 50K | Bob | 592 |
| CA Canada | #190 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Bob | 277 |
| GB United Kingdom | #436 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Bob | 283 |
| AU Australia | #437 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Bob | 221 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Bob | 99 |
| DZ Algeria | #444 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Bob | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | #267 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Bob | 129 |
51,102 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bòb mean, and where does it come from?
- From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 5 other sources.
- Is Bòb a male or female name?
- Bòb is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bòb have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Bòb, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bob.
- How common is the name Bòb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,102 people named Bòb in 2020, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bòb compared with other names?
- In the United States, Bòb is the 315th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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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, “Bòb” — the 315th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.