NameTides

Joby

Joby was the #2,440 boys' name in England & Wales in 2025 (9 babies).

Joby as a boy’s name

  • US
  • England & Wales
Joby as a boy’s name, US, England & WalesBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.030.050.080.118801900192019401960198020002020England & Wales
Joby as a boy’s name, US, England & WalesBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.030.050.080.11880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSEngland & Wales
2025—#2,440 (9)
2024#7,765 (10)#4,271 (4)
2023#9,763 (7)#3,113 (6)
2022#7,768 (10)—
2021#10,799 (6)#2,493 (8)
2020—#3,334 (5)
2019#10,803 (6)#2,728 (7)
2018#8,819 (8)#3,959 (4)
2017#7,546 (10)#2,052 (11)
2016—#1,804 (13)
2015#6,324 (13)#2,150 (10)
2014#7,562 (10)#1,630 (14)
2013#6,241 (13)#3,822 (4)
2012#6,626 (12)#1,756 (13)
2011#5,433 (16)#2,194 (9)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in England & Wales in 2005 at #1,299.
  • Rising over the last five years.
  • In the England & Wales records since the data begins in 1996.
  • In 1976, 20% of US babies named Joby were girls.

How common is it?

about 1 in 30,000 baby boys in the published England & Wales list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.