Roberto
The boy's name Roberto has been in the national records since 1897, with 113,477 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 569th. About 98,000 Robertos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Roberto boys named Roberto
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 113,477
- Estimated living today
- 98,000
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 153rd
- Rank in 2025
- 569th
- First recorded
- 1897
- Girls / boys
- 834 / 112,643
How old the living Robertos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 113,477 babies given the name since 1897, about 98,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 8,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 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 Robertos
- Roberto Baggio (born 1967)Italian association football player
- Roberto Benigni (born 1952)Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director
- Roberto Carlos (born 1973)Brazilian footballer
- Roberto Firmino (born 1991)Brazilian association football player
- Roberto Rossellini (1906–1977)Italian film director
- Roberto Mancini (born 1964)Italian association football player and manager
- Roberto Martínez (born 1973)Spanish association football coach
- Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003)Chilean author
People named Roberto with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Roberto is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Roberto is most concentrated in Texas (4.2×), New Mexico (2.9×), California (2.8×), Arizona (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular boys’ names the year Roberto peaked:
Roberto elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Roberto | 19,914 | — |
| Spain boys | Roberto | 8,623 | 63rd |
| France boys | Roberto | 3,805 | 175th |
| England and Wales boys | Roberto | 606 | 490th |
| Switzerland boys | Roberto | 299 | 240th |
| Norway boys | Roberto | 179 | 340th |
| Belgium boys | Roberto | 113 | 535th |
| Ireland boys | Roberto | 74 | 269th |
| Poland boys | Roberto | 74 birth registrations | 277th |
| Scotland boys | Roberto | 22 | 337th |
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.
Roberto: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Roberto | 197 | 0.016% | 206th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Roberto | 54 | 0.012% | 195th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Roberto | 47 | 0.072% | 54th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Roberto | 1 | 0.027% | 14th |
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.
By canton, Roberto is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.08% of children were given it – 47 of them.
Roberto: rank by region
In 1996, Roberto was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Roberto | 387 | 5 |
In 2020, Roberto was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Roberto | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Roberto by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Roberto 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 | Roberto | 1,956 | 3,879 |
| Finland boys | Roberto | 134 | 275 |
| the Netherlands girls | Roberto | — | 31 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Roberto lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 96,809 men called Roberto were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burgos | Roberto | 1,968 | 10.844 | 17 |
| León | Roberto | 2,295 | 10.523 | 21 |
| Valladolid | Roberto | 2,556 | 9.931 | 24 |
| Palencia | Roberto | 771 | 9.784 | 22 |
| Araba/Álava | Roberto | 1,445 | 8.580 | 18 |
| Cantabria | Roberto | 2,412 | 8.391 | 30 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Roberto 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.