Robb

Where Robb comes from

Robb hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,981 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Robb Royer born
    American songwriter
  3. 1969
    Peak, #502
    237 babies named Robb — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    Robb Wells born
    Canadian actor
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #829.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Robb Wells · Canadian actor, born 1971
  • Robb Royer · American songwriter, born 1942
  • Robb Banks · American rapper, born 1994
  • Robb Holland · racecar driver, born 1967
  • Robb Kulin · American aerospace engineer, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.