Jobe
A boys’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning persecuted; a form of Job.
Babies a year
9
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2440
9 babies
Jobe by the numbers
In 2025, 9 babies in England and Wales were named Jobe. In the US, 21 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 41 babies in 2003, making it a 2000s name.
Other names that come from Job
Like Jobe, each of these traces back to Job: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jobe. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- JoseGod will increase; Spanish form of Joseph4,781 in the US (2017)
- Joegod will increase; a form of Joseph362 in the US (2017)
- Jobpersecuted; one who returns56 in the US (2017)
- Joiejoy46 in the US (2017)
- JobyGod persecutes; form of Job9 in England and Wales (2025)
- Joyejoy; a variant of Joyce9 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Jobe
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