Robert
At the 2020 census, 12,105 Americans bore the surname Robert — 2,899th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,700.
By the numbers
- People
- 12,105
- Rank
- 2,899th
- How common
- 1 in 24,700
- Per 100,000
- 4.1
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
From Anglo-Norman Robert, from the Old Frankish cognate of Old High German Hrodperht (normalised form: Ruodberht), from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiberht, from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiberhtaz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Robert described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Robert
- Alain Robert (born 1962)French climber and author
- Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–1871)French magician
- Hubert Robert (1733–1808)French painter
- Yves Robert (1920–2002)French director
- Mélina Robert-Michon (born 1979)French discus thrower
- Laurent Robert (born 1975)French footballer
- Stéphane Robert (born 1980)French tennis player
- Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840–1910)Union Army soldier
People named Robert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Robert
Also a first name
Robert has been given to 4,869,849 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1947. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.