Roberta
Roberta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 62 births. Its best rank was 64th, in 1936.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 620.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19534,299 births
- Best rank
- #64in 1936
- Since 1880
- 171,485people given the name
The story in the numbers
171,485 girls have been named Roberta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1953, with 4,299 births — 0.23% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 62 births in 2024, against 4,299 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1940s alone account for 22%. It has spent 112 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Roberta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 541 | |
| 1890s | 1,120 | |
| 1900s | 2,372 | |
| 1910s | 10,370 | |
| 1920s | 18,219 | |
| 1930s | 27,731 | |
| 1940s | 38,050 | |
| 1950s | 37,915 | |
| 1960s | 21,101 | |
| 1970s | 8,094 | |
| 1980s | 3,281 | |
| 1990s | 1,299 | |
| 2000s | 548 | |
| 2010s | 564 | |
| 2020s | 280 |
In 1953, its biggest year
Roberta was the 90th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1953 were Mary, Linda, Deborah, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1953.
Names that rose and fell with Roberta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sallypeak 1947
- Constancepeak 1950
- Carylpeak 1947
- Gaynellpeak 1952
- Frediapeak 1948
- Redapeak 1955
- Phylisspeak 1951
- Phylispeak 1949
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.