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Robin

Pronounced /ˈɹɒbɪn/

Rank in 2024
#798
Born in 2024
351
Peak year
1961 · #27
Origin
Germanic, Romance languages
Also recorded for boys:310 in 2024 (#807)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 351 girls were named Robin, about 1 in every 4,596.
  • It peaked in 1961 with 15,651 babies, ranked #27.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1904.
  • 291,558 girls have been named Robin since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0.1
    Silent
  3. 4.5
    Boomers
  4. 3.7
    Gen X
  5. 1.0
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 323 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 2,883 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 160,023 babies, 4.47 per 1,000. Gen X: 93,562 babies, 3.66 per 1,000. Millennials: 26,833 babies, 0.95 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,614 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,320 babies, 0.16 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

(masculine given name): From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert. (feminine given name): From the bird, robin, or from Germanic.

  • A unisex given name.
  • A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, also associated with the bird robin.
Origin
Germanic, Romance languages
Say it
/ˈɹɒbɪn/

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

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Robyn

    Rank
    #1,294
    Born '24
    178
    Origin
    Germanic
    1880peak 19642024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Robbin

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19592024