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Robin

Unisex name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~297,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#704 among girls
Births in 2025
782 338,913 since 1880
Typical age
61 years, median

Robin popularity over time

Robin rank by birth year, 1904–2025Robin ranked #1,659 in 1904 and #704 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #25, in 1962.#100#1,000#704best #25 in 19621920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1904–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1961: 17,505 births recorded as Robin. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1881. Robin has spent 27 years inside the national top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #704 with 782 births. The ten-year change is +65%. Year on year the rank improved by 94.

Babies named Robin per yearPeaks at 17,505 births in 1961.17,505 in 1961018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Robin?

About 297,000 people named Robin are alive in the United States today. That is out of 338,913 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 260,200 women and 36,800 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Robin?

The typical living Robin is 61 years old. More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Robin a late 20th-century name.

Your Robin

Ages of living people named RobinHalf of living Robins are older than 61 and half younger.median 61020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Robin is most common

The name is concentrated in Oregon, at 1.8× the national rate. Washington, California and Massachusetts follow.

Where Robin is used more than average5 states use the name Robin more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: 1.8× the national rateWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: 1.4× the national rateMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: 1.8× the national rateORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.4× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 1.4× the national rateMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Robin is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Oregon 89 1.8×
Washington 185 1.8×
California 895 1.4×
Massachusetts 124 1.4×
Minnesota 111 1.4×

Is Robin a boy's or a girl's name?

86% girls14% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Robin is genuinely unisex: over the last decade the split is close to even. Across the whole record, 86.1% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Robin in England and Wales

ONS recorded 671 births named Robin in 2025, ranking it #109. That is 37% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Robin comes from

From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert. From the bird, robin, or from Germanic.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Robin

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Robin Williams American actor and comedian 1951–2014 161
Robin van Persie Dutch association football player and manager 1983 97
Robin Wright American actress 1966 69
Robin Warren Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate 1937–2024 57
Robin Tunney American actress 1972 54
Robin Gibb British singer 1949–2012 51
Robin Gosens German footballer 1994 50
Robin Le Normand Spanish-French footballer 1996 46
Photo credits (7)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 4,727 in 1952 to 7,762 in 1953 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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