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Robin

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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
Babies named Robin, by year of birthgirls
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Robin
1900s11
1910s91
1920s303
1930s717
1940s6,168
1950s82,424
1960s118,326
1970s45,943
1980s22,695
1990s8,500
2000s2,581
2010s2,183
2020s1,616

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.

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.