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Robbie vs Robie

American parents have registered 43,939 Robbies since 1880, against 1,818 Robies. Robbie is still ahead, with 120 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Robbie against Robie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Robbie Robie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Robbie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1892, when Robbie had 22 and Robie had 5.

Side by side

  Robbie Robie
Total US births 43,9391,818
Most in one year 1,28055
Babies in 2025 120under 5
Estimated living today 29,0001,000
Median age today 5859
Peak year 19571963
Best rank 425th girls1,228th boys
Rank in 2025 3,130thunranked
First recorded 18801892
Girls / boys 22,553 / 21,386642 / 1,176

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Robbie and Robie.