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 [ 1 syll. bob, bo-b ] The boy name Bob is pronounced as BAAB KEY. Bob is primarily used in English and its language of origin is Germanic. The name was first used as a diminutive of Robert among 18th-century English speakers. It was a later development than Dob, Hob, and Nob, which were medieval diminutives of Robert which, unlike Bob, gave rise to English surnames but did not remain in use as given names. In literature, it has appeared as the names of the fictional Bob Acres in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The Rivals (1775) and Bob Cratchit in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843). Bob is an English short form of the English, French, German, Scandinavian, and Scottish name Robert. Variants of Bob include the and English pet form Bobbie and the , English, and Spanish pet form Bobby. Bob is rare as a baby boy name. At the peak of its usage in 1934, 0.233% of baby boys were named Bob. It had a ranking of #75 then. The baby name has substantially dropped in popularity since then, and is now used on a very modest scale. In 2008, out of the family of boy names directly related to Bob, the English, French, German, Scandinavian, and Scottish Robert was the most regularly used. Baby names that sound like Bob include the Chinese Bai, the Vietnamese Bay, the English Beau, the Italian Beppe, the English Bev, the English Biff, the English and Scandinavian Bo, the English Boe, the English Bow, the Dutch Boye, the Vietnamese Buu, the Czech Urba, the Arabic Baha, the German Beppi, the Italian Beppo, the Hebrew Bibi, the Russian Boba, the English Bobbi, the English Bobbie, and the English and Spanish Bobby. Details of famous persons named Bob: KEY: Pronunciation for Bob: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)"   |
