Robertson
Robertson is a boy's name that peaked in 1964, when it was the 2,040th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 410 Robertsons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Robertson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 516
- Estimated living today
- 410
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 2,040th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Robertsons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 516 babies given the name since 1916, about 410 are alive — 78 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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 Robertsons
- Robertson Davies (1913–1995)Canadian novelist
- William Robertson Smith (1846–1894)Scottish orientalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
- Henry Robertson Bowers (1883–1912)Royal Navy officer and explorer
People named Robertson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1964
The most popular boys’ names the year Robertson peaked:
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Robertson 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.