# Robyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/robyn/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 64,604 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,240 / 63,364 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 15,232, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 164 | 1,401 |
| 2012 | 180 | 1,313 |
| 2013 | 202 | 1,191 |
| 2014 | 242 | 1,066 |
| 2015 | 252 | 1,047 |
| 2016 | 246 | 1,062 |
| 2017 | 235 | 1,081 |
| 2018 | 256 | 1,017 |
| 2019 | 234 | 1,077 |
| 2020 | 191 | 1,205 |
| 2021 | 210 | 1,167 |
| 2022 | 195 | 1,236 |
| 2023 | 178 | 1,289 |
| 2024 | 178 | 1,301 |
| 2025 | 150 | 1,441 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 9 | 6,728 |
| 2000 | 8 | 8,053 |
| 2001 | 6 | 10,288 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,603 |
| 2009 | 5 | 14,072 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,497 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,635 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,511 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,514 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,591 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,518 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,658 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,569 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,700 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,777 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 302 | 174 |
| 2012 | 349 | 154 |
| 2013 | 470 | 119 |
| 2014 | 577 | 100 |
| 2015 | 650 | 84 |
| 2016 | 622 | 86 |
| 2017 | 680 | 79 |
| 2018 | 742 | 72 |
| 2019 | 807 | 65 |
| 2020 | 710 | 74 |
| 2021 | 739 | 71 |
| 2022 | 675 | 71 |
| 2023 | 702 | 64 |
| 2024 | 617 | 78 |
| 2025 | 611 | 76 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 1,765 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2,587 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Robyn

- Robyn Lively, American actress (born 1972)
- Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
- Robyn Miller, American video game designer, composer, director and actor
- Robyn Maher, Australian basketball player (born 1959)
- Robyn Gayle, Canadian soccer player
- Robyn Hitchcock, British musician
- Robyn Denholm, Australian businesswoman, chairwoman of Tesla, Inc.
- Robyn Grey-Gardner, Australian rower
- Robyn Ebbern, Australian tennis player
- Robyn Davidson, Australian writer
- Robyn Ochs, American activist
- Robyn Thorn, Australian swimmer and coach

## 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.