Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Hoby

#16,504 most common boys' name of all time · #43,110 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1958–1990

Rank among boys
#16,504
Rank overall
#43,110 of 105,966
First appeared
1958
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
85
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1958 #1,445
Best rank
#1,445 1958
Girls Boys peak 30/yr
19601980

Hoby first appears in 1958. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1990 — 5 5 #8,536
1963 — 5 5 #4,521
1962 — 13 13 #2,360
1961 — 11 11 #2,700
1960 — 6 6 #3,996
1959 — 15 15 #2,199
1958 — 30 30 #1,445