Baby name
STABLE
🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 Bob
/BAHB/
Meaning
“Bright fame”
English diminutive from Robert meaning bright-fame; carries casual American masculinity
Nicknames
none
Vibe
playful
How it ages.
Bob surged to high popularity in the US from 1920s-1960s and has declined sharply as diminutives fell from fashion.
The cultural moment.
US shows dramatic peak-and-fall pattern 1930-1980; UK and Australia follow with similar decline; minimal contemporary adoption.