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Robena vs Robert

American parents have registered 4,869,849 Roberts since 1880, against 590 Robenas. Robert is still ahead, with 3,777 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Robena against Robert, 1880 to 2025 0 25k 50k 75k 100k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Robena Robert

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

Robert 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 1898, when Robena had 7 and Robert had 2,944.

Side by side

  Robena Robert
Total US births 5904,869,849
Most in one year 2991,892
Babies in 2025 under 53,777
Estimated living today 1302.6 million
Median age today 7660
Peak year 19201947
Best rank 1,511th girls2nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked92nd
First recorded 18971880
Girls / boys 590 / 020,119 / 4,849,730

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 Robenas alive today are over 76; half the Roberts are over 60. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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