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Robie

Robie reached its high-water mark in 1963 at number 1,228, and has been recorded 1,818 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2011. About 1,000 Robies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Robie boys named Robie

Girls and boys called Robie

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 642 girls and 1,176 boys in all, and in 1973 the split was 11 to 18.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 25 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
1,818
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
59
Peak year
1963
Best rank
1,228th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1892
Girls / boys
642 / 1,176

How old the living Robies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,818 babies given the name since 1892, about 1,000 are alive — 56 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 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 Robie is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1963

The most popular boys’ names the year Robie peaked:

All the names of 1963

Related names

Robie 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.