Jobie
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- JOH-bee
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Jobie is a boys' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Jobie mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Joby; pet form of Job, sometimes of Joseph
Job is the patient sufferer of the Old Testament's Book of Job.
Meaning borrowed from Joby. More on Wiktionary.
Is Jobie a girl's or a boy's name?
Jobie is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jobie in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Jobie, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2016, with 10 boys.
Half of all the boys named Jobie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2018. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.
In 2025, 12 boys in the UK were given Jobie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,763, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
- Joby 9
- Jobie 3
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Jobie in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,195 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,179 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #3,596 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,287 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,149 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,008 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
| 2008 | 3 | #4,615 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,231 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,399 |
| 2003 | 4 | #2,990 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #1,977 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 4 | #2,438 |
| 1996 | 4 | #2,442 |
Names like Jobie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Jesse, Freddie, Joseph, James, Archie, Charlie, John, Eddie, Jamie, Reuben, Arthur, George
Other spellings of Jobie
Names related to Jobie
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jobie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jobie, updated 20 October 2026.