The BOBB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,389	8884	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	792	6605	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+2597	-2279	-0.001	-3
Other Countries
Australia	17	58358	0	1
United Kingdom	118	22164	0	3

Top States for BOBB by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	428	3840	0.003	35
New York	413	5051	0.002	22
Ohio	263	5708	0.002	23
Texas	213	9091	0.001	10
Florida	202	9897	0.001	13
Top States for BOBB by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	428	3840	0.003	35
Washington DC	18	3435	0.003	31
Louisiana	135	4321	0.003	30
North Dakota	18	6841	0.003	28
Ohio	263	5708	0.002	23

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BOBB live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BOBB represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BOBB in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BOBB by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BOBB

Region of origin: Africa

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of BOBB in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	979	28.89
Native American/Alaskan	130	3.84
Mixed Race	56	1.65
White (Hispanic)	44	1.3
Asian/Pacific	12	0.35
White (Caucasian)	2,168	63.97

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BOBB surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to BOBB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOBB.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.