Robby vs Robyn

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Robby Robyn

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

Of the 105 years in which either name was published, Robyn for 89 years and Robby for 16 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1921–1929 Robby ahead
• 1930 Robyn ahead
• 1931–1935 Robby ahead
• 1936 Robyn ahead
• 1937–1938 Robby ahead
• 1939–2025 Robyn ahead

Side by side

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Robbys alive today are over 53; half the Robyns are over 50. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Robby Oklahoma (2.7×), Texas (2.4×), Georgia (2.0×)
• Robyn Utah (3.2×), Hawaii (2.5×), the District of Columbia (1.6×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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