Robbin
About 10,384 American babies have been named Robbin since 1929, most of them around 1959. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 8,800 Robbins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Robbin boys named Robbin
Girls and boys called Robbin
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Robbin crossed from boys to girls in 1947, and has stayed there for 49 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 91% girls, and in 1996 it was 68%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 54 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,384
- Estimated living today
- 8,800
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 374th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1929
- Girls / boys
- 8,590 / 1,794
How old the living Robbins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,384 babies given the name since 1929, about 8,800 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 70 of them are children and 3,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 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.
Where the name comes from
Variant of Robin, from Robert.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Robbin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Robbin is most concentrated in Indiana (1.8×), Michigan (1.6×), North Carolina (1.5×), Ohio (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular girls’ names the year Robbin peaked:
Robbin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Robbin | 3 | 5,493rd |
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.
Robbin 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 | Robbin | 1,682 | 1,951 |
| the Netherlands girls | Robbin | 311 | 382 |
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
Robbin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.