Robyn
Robyn reached its high-water mark in 1964 at number 195, and has been recorded 64,604 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,436th. About 59,000 Robyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Robyn boys named Robyn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 64,604
- Estimated living today
- 59,000
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 195th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,436th
- First recorded
- 1921
- Girls / boys
- 63,364 / 1,240
How old the living Robyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 64,604 babies given the name since 1921, about 59,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 9,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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
Origin Germanic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Robyns
- Robyn (born 1979)Swedish singer
- Robyn Lively (born 1972)American actress
- Robyn Regehr (born 1980)Canadian ice hockey player
- Robyn Maher (born 1959)Australian basketball player
- Robyn Gayle (born 1985)Canadian soccer player
- Robyn Miller (born 1966)American video game designer, composer, director and actor
- Robyn Hitchcock (born 1953)British musician
- Robyn Grey-Gardner (born 1964)Australian rower
People named Robyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Robyn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Robyn is most concentrated in Utah (3.2×), Hawaii (2.5×), the District of Columbia (1.6×), Idaho (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Robyn peaked:
Robyn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Robyn | 15,167 | 65th |
| New Zealand girls | Robyn | 5,598 | 8th |
| Ireland girls | Robyn | 4,614 | 23rd |
| Scotland girls | Robyn | 4,365 | 35th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Robyn | 789 | 57th |
| Belgium girls | Robyn | 231 | 404th |
| France girls | Robyn | 185 | 1,826th |
| Switzerland girls | Robyn | 159 | 471st |
| France boys | Robyn | 130 | 3,119th |
| England and Wales boys | Robyn | 65 | 2,228th |
| Belgium boys | Robyn | 6 | 960th |
| Ireland boys | Robyn | 6 | 369th |
| Poland girls | Robyn | 2 birth registrations | 724th |
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.
Robyn: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Robyn | 145 | 0.012% | 332nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Robyn | 12 | 0.003% | 588th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Robyn | 1 | 0.002% | 183rd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Robyn | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
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, Robyn is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.02% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Robyn: rank by region
In 2024, Robyn was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Robyn | 742 | 6 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Robyn appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (164th), Province of East Flanders (251st) and Province of Antwerp (324th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Robyn 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Robyn | 21 | 33 |
| Finland boys | Robyn | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Related names
Robyn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.