Robbert
About 580 American babies have been named Robbert since 1915, most of them around 1956. It has not appeared in the national data since 2003. About 340 Robberts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Robbert
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 580
- Estimated living today
- 340
- Median age today
- 58
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 2,015th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Robberts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 580 babies given the name since 1915, about 340 are alive — 58 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 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.
Notable Robberts
- Robbert Dijkgraaf (born 1960)Dutch politician, mathematical physicist and string theorist
- Robbert Schilder (born 1986)Dutch footballer
- Robbert de Greef (1991–2019)Dutch cyclist
- Robbert Kemperman (born 1990)Dutch field hockey player
People named Robbert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Robbert is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Robbert peaked:
Robbert elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Robbert | 123 | 412th |
| England and Wales boys | Robbert | 3 | 3,036th |
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.
Robbert: rank by region
In 2008, Robbert was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Robbert | 844 | 5 |
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.
Robbert 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Robbert | 7,671 | 10,089 |
| the Netherlands girls | Robbert | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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
Robbert 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.