BOB First Name Statistics by MyNameStats.com

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National statistics for the first name BOB
Statistic	MyNameStats	SSA Baby Name
Population Est.	242,329	51,826
National Rank	281	796
Percentile Rank	99.9%	99.14%
Proportion/100k	76	16.25
as Girl's Name		as Boy's Name
as First Name		as Last Name

Key Findings

Popularity: Bob is the 281st most popular first name in the U.S., placing it among the top 99.9% all first names.
Population: An estimated 242 thousand Americans bear the name Bob. Based strictly on 100 years of Social Security Administration (SSA) baby name records, the living population with this name is roughly 51826.
Frequency: Approximately 76 out of every 100,000 Americans are named Bob.
Usage: It is almost exclusively used as a boy's name (100% of the time).

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Race & Hispanic origin distribution of the people with the first name BOB
Race or Hispanic origin	% named BOB	% population	Visualization	% difference

Key Findings

Note: Data are estimates based on U.S. Census baseline comparisons. On the accompanying chart, blue vertical bars depict the distribution for people with the first name BOB, while yellow horizontal lines show the national average. Blue bars exceeding yellow lines indicate a higher likelihood than the general population.

Ethnic and Cultural Name Categories

The first name BOB is included in the following name categories:

Common US surname - Census Bureau Data

Common US masculine given name - Census Bureau Data

US masculine baby name - Social Security Administration

Common Swedish masculine given name - SCB Data

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BOB SMITH BOB JOHNSON BOB JONES BOB BROWN BOB MILLER BOB WILLIAMS BOB DAVIS BOB BILLY BOB LEE BOB MARTIN BOB WHITE BOB WILSON BOB TAYLOR BOB BAKER BOB ANDERSON BOB MOORE BOB THOMAS BOB THOMPSON BOB CLARK BOB HALL

Fun Fact: There are 20,950 unique last names associated with this first name BOB on MyNameStats.com.

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