Robin

5,289 people in the United States were counted with the surname Robin in the 2020 census, making it the 6,200th most common in the country. That is about one person in 56,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,289
Rank: 6,200th
How common: 1 in 56,500
Per 100,000: 1.8

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 Robin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 74.4%
Black, not Hispanic 10.8%
Hispanic or Latino 6.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Robin

Dany Robin (1927–1995)French actress
Muriel Robin (born 1955)French actress and comedian
Marthe Robin (1902–1981)French Roman Catholic mystic
Paul Robin (1837–1912)French anarchist pedagogue
Leo Robin (1900–1984)American composer, lyricist and songwriter
Charles Philippe Robin (1821–1885)French biologist
Jean-Cyril Robin (born 1969)French road bicycle racer
Daniel Robin (1943–2018)Olympic wrestler

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

Surnames like Robin

Also a first name

Robin has been given to 338,913 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1961. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.