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Robert

Pronounced /ˈɹɑ.bɚt/

Rank in 2024
#90
Born in 2024
3,785
Peak year
1947 · #2
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 3,785 boys were named Robert, about 1 in every 453.
  • It peaked in 1947 with 91,654 babies, ranked #2.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 4,845,891 boys have been named Robert since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Robert per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 43.5
    Greatest
  2. 54.4
    Silent
  3. 40.8
    Boomers
  4. 26.7
    Gen X
  5. 14.7
    Millennials
  6. 5.6
    Gen Z
  7. 2.8
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 727,079 babies, 43.49 per 1,000. Silent: 1,124,280 babies, 54.43 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,531,022 babies, 40.78 per 1,000. Gen X: 726,799 babies, 26.71 per 1,000. Millennials: 446,487 babies, 14.67 per 1,000. Gen Z: 174,539 babies, 5.56 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 61,643 babies, 2.84 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Anglo-Norman Robert, from the Old Frankish cognate of Old High German Hrodperht (normalised form: Ruodberht), from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiberht, from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiberhtaz (literally “shining glory”). Displaced native Old English Hrōþberht from the same source, which would yield English Rothbert. Doublet of Rupert.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈɹɑ.bɚt/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Robert, CC BY-SA 4.0.