Robinson

Robinson is the 31st most common surname in the United States, shared by 510,138 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 586.

By the numbers

People: 510,138
Rank: 31st
How common: 1 in 586
Per 100,000: 170.7

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

White, not Hispanic 46.8%
Black, not Hispanic 43.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Robinson

Mary Robinson (born 1944)former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Robert Robinson (1886–1975)English chemist
Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973)Romanian-American actor
Jackie Robinson (1919–1972)American baseball player
Sugar Ray Robinson (1921–1989)American boxer
David Robinson (born 1965)American basketball player
Marilynne Robinson (born 1943)American novelist and essayist
Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952)American science fiction writer

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

Surnames like Robinson

Also a first name

Robinson has been given to 2,921 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 2014. 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.