Boy
Bobby
The name Bobby carries the meaning "Bright fame", with roots in Germanic. It had its heyday in the 1930s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is a well-known pick in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1935.
GermanicDiminutive of Robert
GermanicBright fame
Births by decade
1900s
87
1910s
662
1920s
15,053
1930s
71,650
1940s
60,433
1950s
54,480
1960s
47,413
1970s
30,241
1980s
22,702
1990s
11,594
2000s
5,760
2010s
2,760
Peaked in the 1930s · 322,835 total U.S. births since 1900