# Robert (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/robert/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “shining glory” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɹɑ.bɚt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Bobbie, Bob, Bobby, Rabbie, Robbie, Robby, Robbo |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,869,849 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,849,730 / 20,119 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 27,772, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Anglo-Norman Robert, from the Old Frankish cognate of Old High German Hrodperht (normalised form: Ruodberht), from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiberht, from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiberhtaz (literally “shining glory”). Displaced native Old English Hrōþberht from the same source, which would yield English Rothbert. Doublet of Rupert.

## What it means

Robert is grouped under famous.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 17 | 7,083 |
| 2006 | 11 | 10,463 |
| 2007 | 9 | 12,454 |
| 2008 | 7 | 15,074 |
| 2009 | 11 | 10,526 |
| 2010 | 12 | 9,682 |
| 2011 | 9 | 11,962 |
| 2012 | 7 | 14,678 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,923 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12,837 |
| 2015 | 8 | 12,776 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,210 |
| 2022 | 6 | 14,954 |
| 2023 | 6 | 14,835 |
| 2025 | 5 | 16,772 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6,984 | 62 |
| 2012 | 6,963 | 60 |
| 2013 | 6,721 | 62 |
| 2014 | 6,660 | 60 |
| 2015 | 6,137 | 63 |
| 2016 | 6,010 | 62 |
| 2017 | 5,566 | 65 |
| 2018 | 5,191 | 71 |
| 2019 | 4,853 | 76 |
| 2020 | 4,402 | 80 |
| 2021 | 4,436 | 79 |
| 2022 | 4,082 | 84 |
| 2023 | 3,827 | 88 |
| 2024 | 3,806 | 90 |
| 2025 | 3,772 | 92 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 694 | 93 |
| 2012 | 660 | 96 |
| 2013 | 645 | 98 |
| 2014 | 631 | 96 |
| 2015 | 605 | 105 |
| 2016 | 597 | 109 |
| 2017 | 569 | 111 |
| 2018 | 507 | 117 |
| 2019 | 511 | 115 |
| 2020 | 439 | 125 |
| 2021 | 394 | 144 |
| 2022 | 362 | 148 |
| 2023 | 359 | 147 |
| 2024 | 340 | 151 |
| 2025 | 310 | 164 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: رُوبِرْت, رُوبِير
- Armenian: Ռոբերտ
- Bulgarian: Ро́бърт
- Catalan: Robert
- Chinese: 羅伯特 /罗伯特, 羅貝爾 /罗贝尔, 羅伯 /罗伯
- Czech: Robert
- Danish: Robert
- Esperanto: Roberto
- Estonian: Robert
- Finnish: Roope
- French: Robert
- Georgian: რობერტი
- German: Robert, Rupprecht
- Greek: Ροβέρτος, Ρόμπερτ
- Hungarian: Róbert
- Icelandic: Hróbjartur, Róbert
- Irish: Riobard
- Italian: Roberto
- Japanese: ロバート
- Korean: 로베르트

## People named Robert

- Robert Kocharyan, former leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Armenia
- Robert Bárány, Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian writer (1798-1850)
- Róbert Fazekas, athletics (sport) competitor (1975–)
- Robert Brovdi, Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Róbert Švehla, Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- Robert Reinhold von Wirén, Baltic German admiral (1856–1917)
- Róbert Isaszegi, boxer
- Robert Dietrich, German ice hockey player (1986-2011)
- Robert Gardos, Austrian table tennis player (1979–)
- Róbert Gátai, fencer
- Robert Sturua, Georgian theatre director

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.