Robinson
Robinson is a boy's name that peaked in 2014, when it was the 2,138th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,583rd. About 2,400 Robinsons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Robinson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,921
- Estimated living today
- 2,400
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 2,138th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,583rd
- First recorded
- 1900
How old the living Robinsons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,921 babies given the name since 1900, about 2,400 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 810 of them are children and 160 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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 a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Robinsons
- Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)American poet
- Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880)American painter
- Robinson Canó (born 1982)Dominican baseball player
- Robinson Stévenin (born 1981)French actor
People named Robinson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Robinson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Robinson is most concentrated in New York (6.3×), Florida (4.2×), New Jersey (2.7×), California (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Robinson peaked:
Robinson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Robinson | 1,455 | 583rd |
| England and Wales boys | Robinson | 19 | 2,418th |
| Belgium boys | Robinson | 5 | 1,387th |
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.
Robinson 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 boys | Robinson | — | 24 |
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 Robinson lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 756 men called Robinson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Robinson | 13 | 0.077 | 849 |
| Rioja, La | Robinson | 10 | 0.062 | 940 |
| Ourense | Robinson | 9 | 0.061 | 813 |
| Madrid | Robinson | 206 | 0.060 | 931 |
| Balears, Illes | Robinson | 30 | 0.048 | 1,223 |
| Palmas, Las | Robinson | 28 | 0.048 | 1,630 |
Listed in 35 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 17 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
Robinson 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.