Robbins

Robbins is the 427th most common surname in the United States, shared by 75,400 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,964.

By the numbers

People: 75,400
Rank: 427th
How common: 1 in 3,964
Per 100,000: 25.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Robbins described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.5%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Robbins

Tim Robbins (born 1958)American actor
Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916–2003)American doctor
Tony Robbins (born 1960)American author, professional speaker
Jerome Robbins (1918–1998)American choreographer and director
Harold Robbins (1916–1997)American novelist
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins (1898–1984)British economist
Tom Robbins (1932–2025)American writer
Marty Robbins (1925–1982)American country singer

People named Robbins with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Robbins

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.