# Robin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/robin/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɹɑbɪn/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Robbo |
| Variant spellings | Robyn |
| US babies named this | 338,913 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 46,952 / 291,961 (86% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,338, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* (masculine given name): From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert. * (feminine given name): From the bird, robin, or from Germanic.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 146 | 1,518 |
| 2012 | 175 | 1,345 |
| 2013 | 190 | 1,258 |
| 2014 | 226 | 1,123 |
| 2015 | 260 | 1,029 |
| 2016 | 239 | 1,086 |
| 2017 | 256 | 1,014 |
| 2018 | 271 | 978 |
| 2019 | 262 | 986 |
| 2020 | 293 | 901 |
| 2021 | 291 | 918 |
| 2022 | 324 | 860 |
| 2023 | 358 | 788 |
| 2024 | 352 | 800 |
| 2025 | 400 | 704 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 101 | 1,563 |
| 2012 | 104 | 1,538 |
| 2013 | 157 | 1,154 |
| 2014 | 192 | 1,045 |
| 2015 | 214 | 971 |
| 2016 | 172 | 1,129 |
| 2017 | 202 | 1,005 |
| 2018 | 203 | 1,017 |
| 2019 | 257 | 864 |
| 2020 | 259 | 874 |
| 2021 | 256 | 900 |
| 2022 | 318 | 795 |
| 2023 | 322 | 786 |
| 2024 | 315 | 799 |
| 2025 | 382 | 705 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 1,117 |
| 2012 | 26 | 1,253 |
| 2013 | 40 | 925 |
| 2014 | 34 | 1,040 |
| 2015 | 52 | 745 |
| 2016 | 73 | 573 |
| 2017 | 74 | 576 |
| 2018 | 122 | 370 |
| 2019 | 126 | 349 |
| 2020 | 109 | 397 |
| 2021 | 129 | 361 |
| 2022 | 145 | 306 |
| 2023 | 149 | 294 |
| 2024 | 134 | 323 |
| 2025 | 186 | 250 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 148 | 298 |
| 2012 | 197 | 249 |
| 2013 | 199 | 253 |
| 2014 | 239 | 232 |
| 2015 | 250 | 228 |
| 2016 | 286 | 198 |
| 2017 | 251 | 209 |
| 2018 | 303 | 175 |
| 2019 | 400 | 143 |
| 2020 | 381 | 146 |
| 2021 | 443 | 130 |
| 2022 | 464 | 120 |
| 2023 | 432 | 124 |
| 2024 | 437 | 125 |
| 2025 | 485 | 109 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: رُوبِن
- Bulgarian: Ро́бин
- Chinese: 罗宾
- Dutch: Robin
- French: Robin
- German: Robin
- Hindi: रोबिन, रॉबिन
- Japanese: ロビン
- Korean: 로빈
- Russian: Ро́бин

## People named Robin

- Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (1951–2014)
- Robin van Persie, Dutch association football player and manager
- Robin Wright, American actress
- Robin Warren, Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate (1937–2024)
- Robin Tunneyio, American actress
- Robin Gibb, British singer (1949–2012)
- Robin Gosens, German footballer
- Robin Thicke, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (born 1977)
- Robin Cook, British Labour Party politician (1946-2005)
- Robin Sharma, Canadian self-help writer
- Robin Morgan, American feminist writer
- Robin Hobb, American fiction writer (pseudonym) (born 1952)

## 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.