# Tobin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tobin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,737 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,570 / 167 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 253, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | 13,132 |
| 1988 | 5 | 13,760 |
| 2002 | 5 | 17,911 |
| 2003 | 9 | 11,267 |
| 2012 | 7 | 14,865 |
| 2015 | 14 | 8,406 |
| 2016 | 21 | 6,173 |
| 2017 | 12 | 9,303 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15,521 |
| 2019 | 12 | 9,069 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9,492 |
| 2021 | 18 | 6,664 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,488 |
| 2023 | 6 | 15,025 |
| 2024 | 6 | 15,097 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 135 | 1,277 |
| 2012 | 139 | 1,272 |
| 2013 | 163 | 1,118 |
| 2014 | 154 | 1,200 |
| 2015 | 130 | 1,352 |
| 2016 | 118 | 1,464 |
| 2017 | 84 | 1,808 |
| 2018 | 84 | 1,821 |
| 2019 | 79 | 1,897 |
| 2020 | 87 | 1,765 |
| 2021 | 79 | 1,929 |
| 2022 | 61 | 2,348 |
| 2023 | 51 | 2,605 |
| 2024 | 46 | 2,827 |
| 2025 | 37 | 3,231 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 1,447 |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,962 |
| 2013 | 12 | 1,796 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Tobin

- Tobin Bell, American actor (born 1942)
- Tobin Heath, American soccer player
- Tobin J. Marks, American chemist (born 1944)
- Tobin Esperance, amerikanischer Jazz-Bassist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.