How common is the surname Robinette?

8,784 people in the United States had the surname Robinette in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,149 Americans. It ranked 4,045th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Robinette?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Robinette identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Robinette getting more or less common?

More common. 8,739 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,784 in 2010, up 0.5%.

The surname Robinette

A French surname, carried by 8,784 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex R153

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Robinette is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

French origin

Variant of Robinett, from French Robinet.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,784 people named Robinette in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,149 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 8,739.

#4,045

rank among US surnames

8,784

people in 2010

3.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,727)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,036	Basham	8,806	35,061
#4,037	D'Angelo	8,802	35,077
#4,038	Raney	8,801	35,081
#4,039	Lehmann	8,799	35,089
#4,040	Worthy	8,795	35,105
#4,041	Langdon	8,794	35,109
#4,042	Jara	8,790	35,125

Who is named Robinette

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Robinette identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Robinette

Robinette has the Soundex code R153, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R153.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Robinette come from?: Variant of Robinett, from French Robinet.
How common is the surname Robinette?: 8,784 people in the United States had the surname Robinette in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,149 Americans. It ranked 4,045th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Robinette?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Robinette identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Robinette getting more or less common?: More common. 8,739 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,784 in 2010, up 0.5%.