Robin
Robin is ranked 799th among girls in 2024 (351 births). Its best rank was 25th, in 1962–1963.
- Rank in 2024
- #799down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3510.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 196115,651 births
- Best rank
- #25first in 1962
- Since 1904
- 338,120people given the name
The story in the numbers
291,558 girls have been named Robin in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 15,651 births — 0.78% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 351 births in 2024, against 15,651 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 41%. It has spent 80 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 46,562 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Robin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 11 | |
| 1910s | 91 | |
| 1920s | 303 | |
| 1930s | 717 | |
| 1940s | 6,168 | |
| 1950s | 82,424 | |
| 1960s | 118,326 | |
| 1970s | 45,943 | |
| 1980s | 22,695 | |
| 1990s | 8,500 | |
| 2000s | 2,581 | |
| 2010s | 2,183 | |
| 2020s | 1,616 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Robin was the 27th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Robin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Teripeak 1960
- Lauriepeak 1962
- Terripeak 1959
- Migdaliapeak 1961
- Taripeak 1959
- Tamapeak 1959
- Cindipeak 1958
- Robbinpeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
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.