Recorded 1881–2025 · United States
Robin was most popular in 1961, when 17,505 American babies were given the name — ranking #48 that year. In 2025 it ranked #825, with 782 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 338,913 people named Robin.
Robin first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 132 of the 145 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 338,913 American births named Robin between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 294,265 are estimated to be alive today.
782 American babies were named Robin in 2025, ranking #825 that year.
Robin is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 664 births a year, against 353 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +88% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Robin is mostly a girl’s name — 86.2% of the 338,913 Americans given it were girls and 13.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 1940 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 53% girls and 47% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 294,265 Americans named Robin are alive today — 87% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 62 years old, and half are between 53 and 67.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Germanic · diminutive of Robert, later the bird
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org