Roberta
Roberta reached its high-water mark in 1953 at number 90, and has been recorded 172,330 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,778th. About 93,000 Robertas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Roberta boys named Roberta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 172,330
- Estimated living today
- 93,000
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1953
- Best rank
- 90th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,778th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 171,548 / 782
How old the living Robertas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 172,330 babies given the name since 1880, about 93,000 are alive — 54 in every hundred. Roughly 980 of them are children and 63,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 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
Origin Germanic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Robertas
- Roberta Metsola (born 1979)President of the European Parliament since 2022
- Roberta Flack (1937–2025)American singer
- Roberta Bondar (born 1945)Canadian astronaut
- Roberta Vinci (born 1983)Italian female tennis player
- Roberta Williams (born 1953)American video game designer
- Roberta Pinotti (born 1961)Italian politician
- Roberta Peters (1930–2017)American operatic soprano
- Roberta Anastase (born 1976)Romanian politician
People named Roberta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Roberta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Roberta is most concentrated in Montana (2.4×), Wyoming (2.1×), Maine (1.9×), New Mexico (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1953
The most popular girls’ names the year Roberta peaked:
Roberta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Roberta | 19,489 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Roberta | 859 | 526th |
| France girls | Roberta | 375 | 815th |
| Ireland girls | Roberta | 190 | 277th |
| Scotland girls | Roberta | 117 | 256th |
| Switzerland girls | Roberta | 90 | 409th |
| Poland girls | Roberta | 9 birth registrations | 308th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Roberta | 6 | 344th |
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.
Roberta: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Roberta | 63 | 0.005% | 408th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Roberta | 10 | 0.002% | 492nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Roberta | 17 | 0.026% | 72nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Roberta: rank by region
In 2019, Roberta was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Roberta | 10 | 1 |
In 2022, Roberta was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Roberta | 326 | 2 |
In 2001, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Roberta appears in the lists for Sud (10th) and Isole (10th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.
Roberta 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Roberta | 22 | 55 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – 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.
Where Roberta lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,173 women called Roberta were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Roberta | 117 | 0.211 | 523 |
| Palmas, Las | Roberta | 92 | 0.156 | 682 |
| Balears, Illes | Roberta | 74 | 0.118 | 665 |
| Barcelona | Roberta | 256 | 0.084 | 821 |
| Málaga | Roberta | 60 | 0.065 | 966 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Roberta | 60 | 0.058 | 1,210 |
Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Roberta 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.