Robin

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Robin boys named Robin

Girls and boys called Robin

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Robin crossed from boys to girls in 1940, and has stayed there for 86 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 94% girls, and in 2025 it was 51%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 113 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

338,913

Estimated living today

291,000

Median age today

61

Peak year

1961

Best rank

27th

Rank in 2025

704th

First recorded

1881

Girls / boys

291,961 / 46,952

How old the living Robins are

born that year still alive today

Of the 338,913 babies given the name since 1881, about 291,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 8,300 of them are children and 96,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Robins

• Robin Williams (1951–2014)American actor and comedian
• Robin van Persie (born 1983)Dutch association football player and manager
• Robin Wright (born 1966)American actress
• Robin Warren (1937–2024)Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate
• Robin Tunney (born 1972)American actress
• Robin Gibb (1949–2012)British singer
• Robin Gosens (born 1994)German footballer
• Robin Söderling (born 1984)Swedish tennis player

People named Robin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Robin is most common

• CA33,204
• NY28,283
• OH19,484
• PA19,091
• TX15,607
• IL14,806
• MI14,728
• NC10,950
• FL10,469
• NJ10,421

Relative to how many babies each state records, Robin is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.0×), Delaware (1.7×), Rhode Island (1.6×), Maryland (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1961

The most popular girls’ names the year Robin peaked:

• Mary
• Lisa
• Susan
• Linda
• Karen
• Patricia

All the names of 1961

Robin elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Robin: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Robin is most concentrated in Appenzell Innerrhoden, where 0.69% of children were given it – 27 of them.

Robin: rank by region

In 2025, Robin was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Robin was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Robin appears in the lists for Province of Liège (19th), Province of Namur (22nd), Province of Luxembourg (25th), Province of Walloon Brabant (31st), Province of Hainaut (67th), Brussels-Capital Region (153rd), Province of East Flanders (154th), Province of Flemish Brabant (218th), Province of Antwerp (243rd), Province of Antwerp (251st) and Province of East Flanders (264th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Robin by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Robin among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Robin lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 724 men called Robin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Robert
• Roberta
• Roberto
• Robyn
• Robbie
• Robby
• Robbin
• Rob
• Robb
• Robinson
• Roby
• Robbi

Robin against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Robin vs Robert
• Robin vs Roberta
• Robin vs Roberto
• Robin vs Robyn
• Robin vs Robbie
• Robin vs Robby

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