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Bobby

Boy#82 in 20245 lettersPeak 2012
652
Babies in 2024
-29%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 1.19k
+14%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 19962024
2.50k1.88k1.25k6250200020052010201520202024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.

About the name Bobby

Bobby is one of the more popular UK boys' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #82 for boys born in 2024 with 652 babies registered in England & Wales.

Bobby reached its peak in 2012, when 1,186 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #57 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 652 represents 55% of the peak.

Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 16,904 boys have been officially registered with the name Bobby in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 8,906 boys were registered with the name, starting from 922 in 2014 and ending at 652 in 2024.

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