Robert

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #92 for boys in 2025, 3,772 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
#1
1953 · 86,243 births
Debut · boys
1880
2,415 births
In top 100 · boys
146 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,849,730
since 1880

Robert over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100rank188019001920194019601980200020201924peak #1, 1953boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#14,9425#923,772
2024—#903,806
2023#13,4626#883,827
2022#13,5926#844,082
2021—#794,436
2020—#804,402
2019#13,7996#764,853
2018—#715,191
2017—#655,566
2016—#626,010
2015#11,8358#636,137
2014#11,9318#606,660
2013#11,9698#626,721
2012#13,4837#606,963
2011#11,1819#626,984
2010#9,23112#547,569
2009#9,97511#557,842
2008#13,8327#498,841
2007#11,6309#479,388
2006#9,90111#479,911
2005#6,82017#3710,166
2004#3,98935#3610,684
2003#6,88516#3511,399
2002#7,44414#3412,031
2001#5,36421#3012,665
2000#4,98123#2913,739
1999#4,57624#2614,540
1998#4,02328#2315,527
1997#3,22436#2316,304
1996#3,14937#2317,676
1995#2,73544#2218,586
1994#2,43252#2120,560
1993#1,98570#1722,447
1992#2,22060#1724,094
1991#1,83277#1326,839
1990#1,439109#1328,886
1989#1,250126#1030,072
1988#930182#1030,319
1987#798219#1030,237
1986#738241#931,350
1985#723238#832,094
1984#718230#931,768
1983#671255#1032,745
1982#731233#934,409
1981#722228#934,395
1980#682254#934,266
1979#680252#834,015
1978#642254#833,374
1977#664238#634,214
1976#654236#733,789
1975#635245#635,306
1974#635241#737,005
1973#618249#738,698
1972#573288#643,013
1971#585298#550,634
1970#560327#557,177
1969#538335#558,300
1968#589265#558,174
1967#598254#556,369
1966#595251#559,317
1965#606255#563,106
1964#594279#569,980
1963#633255#570,007
1962#680229#570,199
1961#592289#572,977
1960#610268#572,357
1959#653235#574,542
1958#639237#477,338
1957#611255#481,765
1956#655214#383,924
1955#607232#483,758
1954#671192#286,331
1953#586228#186,243
1952#639193#286,588
1951#595210#286,353
1950#594203#283,553
1949#584202#283,873
1948#581209#285,478
1947#549237#291,655
1946#540214#284,136
1945#515198#269,947
1944#518194#270,855
1943#468250#274,892
1942#514208#271,845
1941#498196#264,247
1940#465206#261,198
1939#465208#159,666
1938#454219#162,271
1937#441223#161,842
1936#433221#158,500
1935#426231#156,527
1934#398266#155,843
1933#391273#154,221
1932#352326#159,268
1931#345343#160,519
1930#320426#162,153
1929#314441#159,807
1928#315434#160,701
1927#332411#161,674
1926#347369#161,130
1925#364350#160,895
1924#398299#160,802
1923#424250#256,111
1922#436237#253,796
1921#437244#252,779
1920#474205#348,679
1919#494184#441,025
1918#516178#440,619
1917#512168#435,220
1916#612122#431,741
1915#607116#428,737
1914#64780#421,188
1913#61272#415,684
1912#61564#412,836
1911#69839#56,526
1910#79429#45,609
1909#81325#54,563
1908#75526#54,219
1907#79022#54,020
1906#91716#53,635
1905#79721#63,410
1904#1,00113#53,414
1903#96913#73,044
1902#75621#63,180
1901#82916#72,543
1900#74224#63,821
1899#75618#72,609
1898#1,00912#72,932
1897#73518#82,701
1896#57628#82,719
1895#70320#82,635
1894#64321#82,497
1893#71317#82,563
1892#70617#82,710
1891#9439#82,240
1890#79112#82,541
1889#68714#92,513
1888#57219#82,814
1887#8608#102,125
1886#55616#82,443
1885#65811#92,322
1884#8517#102,468
1883#57911#92,334
1882#53012#102,500
1881#5829#112,140
1880#49212#102,415
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Robert was already there! It came in at #10, and was given to 2,415 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1880–1899, when fewer than 3,000 boys a year got the name.

Where Robert is popular in 1924

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: #5 for boys · 17 births · 1 in 15 boysAKMaine: #1 for boys · 352 births · 1 in 19 boysMEVermont: #1 for boys · 151 births · 1 in 16 boysVTNew Hampshire: #1 for boys · 279 births · 1 in 12 boysNHWashington: #1 for boys · 860 births · 1 in 11 boysWAIdaho: #1 for boys · 242 births · 1 in 15 boysIDMontana: #1 for boys · 273 births · 1 in 15 boysMTNorth Dakota: #1 for boys · 328 births · 1 in 19 boysNDMinnesota: #1 for boys · 1,530 births · 1 in 14 boysMNIllinois: #1 for boys · 4,513 births · 1 in 13 boysILWisconsin: #1 for boys · 1,938 births · 1 in 13 boysWIMichigan: #1 for boys · 2,919 births · 1 in 13 boysMINew York: #2 for boys · 5,038 births · 1 in 19 boysNYMassachusetts: #2 for boys · 2,247 births · 1 in 16 boysMARhode Island: #4 for boys · 258 births · 1 in 22 boysRIOregon: #1 for boys · 502 births · 1 in 12 boysORNevada: #1 for boys · 44 births · 1 in 8 boysNVWyoming: #1 for boys · 148 births · 1 in 12 boysWYSouth Dakota: #1 for boys · 397 births · 1 in 15 boysSDIowa: #1 for boys · 1,667 births · 1 in 13 boysIAIndiana: #1 for boys · 2,419 births · 1 in 11 boysINOhio: #1 for boys · 4,436 births · 1 in 12 boysOHPennsylvania: #3 for boys · 5,274 births · 1 in 17 boysPANew Jersey: #3 for boys · 1,644 births · 1 in 18 boysNJConnecticut: #3 for boys · 685 births · 1 in 18 boysCTCalifornia: #1 for boys · 2,585 births · 1 in 14 boysCAUtah: #1 for boys · 277 births · 1 in 18 boysUTColorado: #1 for boys · 619 births · 1 in 14 boysCONebraska: #1 for boys · 936 births · 1 in 13 boysNEMissouri: #1 for boys · 1,788 births · 1 in 17 boysMOKentucky: #5 for boys · 1,102 births · 1 in 24 boysKYWest Virginia: #3 for boys · 937 births · 1 in 20 boysWVVirginia: #4 for boys · 1,103 births · 1 in 22 boysVAMaryland: #5 for boys · 676 births · 1 in 20 boysMDDelaware: #4 for boys · 87 births · 1 in 17 boysDEArizona: #2 for boys · 157 births · 1 in 24 boysAZNew Mexico: #4 for boys · 132 births · 1 in 30 boysNMKansas: #1 for boys · 1,021 births · 1 in 16 boysKSArkansas: #4 for boys · 641 births · 1 in 29 boysARTennessee: #4 for boys · 1,206 births · 1 in 21 boysTNNorth Carolina: #4 for boys · 1,393 births · 1 in 25 boysNCSouth Carolina: #4 for boys · 766 births · 1 in 26 boysSCDistrict of Columbia: #4 for boys · 227 births · 1 in 14 boysDCOklahoma: #2 for boys · 934 births · 1 in 24 boysOKLouisiana: #4 for boys · 630 births · 1 in 31 boysLAMississippi: #4 for boys · 820 births · 1 in 23 boysMSAlabama: #4 for boys · 1,075 births · 1 in 24 boysALGeorgia: #4 for boys · 1,109 births · 1 in 25 boysGAHawaii: #4 for boys · 104 births · 1 in 31 boysHITexas: #4 for boys · 1,757 births · 1 in 32 boysTXFlorida: #4 for boys · 559 births · 1 in 21 boysFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Nevada#1 · 1 in 8
  2. Indiana#1 · 1 in 11
  3. Washington#1 · 1 in 11
  4. Wyoming#1 · 1 in 12
  5. Oregon#1 · 1 in 12

Best ever in a state: #1 in Oregon, 1912.

Show every state
StateRankBirthsShare
California#12,5851 in 14
Colorado#16191 in 14
Idaho#12421 in 15
Illinois#14,5131 in 13
Indiana#12,4191 in 11
Iowa#11,6671 in 13
Kansas#11,0211 in 16
Maine#13521 in 19
Michigan#12,9191 in 13
Minnesota#11,5301 in 14
Missouri#11,7881 in 17
Montana#12731 in 15
Nebraska#19361 in 13
Nevada#1441 in 8
New Hampshire#12791 in 12
North Dakota#13281 in 19
Ohio#14,4361 in 12
Oregon#15021 in 12
South Dakota#13971 in 15
Utah#12771 in 18
Vermont#11511 in 16
Washington#18601 in 11
Wisconsin#11,9381 in 13
Wyoming#11481 in 12
Arizona#21571 in 24
Massachusetts#22,2471 in 16
New York#25,0381 in 19
Oklahoma#29341 in 24
Connecticut#36851 in 18
New Jersey#31,6441 in 18
Pennsylvania#35,2741 in 17
West Virginia#39371 in 20
Alabama#41,0751 in 24
Arkansas#46411 in 29
Delaware#4871 in 17
District of Columbia#42271 in 14
Florida#45591 in 21
Georgia#41,1091 in 25
Hawaii#41041 in 31
Louisiana#46301 in 31
Mississippi#48201 in 23
New Mexico#41321 in 30
North Carolina#41,3931 in 25
Rhode Island#42581 in 22
South Carolina#47661 in 26
Tennessee#41,2061 in 21
Texas#41,7571 in 32
Virginia#41,1031 in 22
Alaska#5171 in 15
Kentucky#51,1021 in 24
Maryland#56761 in 20

Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.

See more about Robert
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 2 spots since 2024 (#90 → #92)
  • 12 spots since 2020 (#80 → #92)
  • 29 spots since 2015 (#63 → #92)
  • Biggest jump: 2 spots in 1888 (#10 → #8)
  • Biggest drop: 10 spots in 2006 (#37 → #47)
Rise & fade · boys
73 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1953 at #1 (86,243 births)
  • Births halved by 1972, 19 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 10 for 109 yrs
  • Top 10: 109 yrs · run 1882–1989
  • Top 100: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
  • Top 1,000: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 17
  • Highest: 1 in 17 boys born in 1931 were named Robert (5.8%)
  • Latest: 1 in 453 boys born in 2025 (0.22%)
  • Its best rank, #1 in 1953, was only 1 in 23 (4.4%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 17.1% of all boys named Robert (830,395) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s24,074#8 (1888)#9
1890s26,147#7 (1898)#8
1900s35,849#5 (1909)#6
1910s239,185#4 (1919)#4
1920s576,374#1 (1927)#2
1930s590,810#1 (1938)#1
1940s758,126#2 (1947)#2
1950s830,395#1 (1953)#3
1960s650,786#5 (1961)#5
1970s397,225#5 (1970)#7
1980s321,655#8 (1985)#9
1990s205,459#13 (1990)#20
2000s106,666#29 (2000)#40
2010s62,654#54 (2010)#64
2020s24,325#79 (2021)#86

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Robert in 1924

girls
#398
299 births · 1 in 4,177 girls
boys
#1
60,802 births · 1 in 19 boys

Top girls' names in 1924

  1. #1Mary73,534
  2. #2Dorothy39,996
  3. #3Helen31,194
  4. #4Betty30,600
  5. #5Margaret26,547
  6. #6Ruth23,601
  7. #7Virginia18,620
  8. #8Mildred15,853
  9. #9Doris15,786
  10. #10Frances15,183
  11. #398Robert299

Top boys' names in 1924

  1. #1Robert60,802
  2. #2John59,052
  3. #3William53,506
  4. #4James52,942
  5. #5Charles30,460
  6. #6George27,373
  7. #7Joseph25,421
  8. #8Richard21,244
  9. #9Edward21,126
  10. #10Donald17,929
More about 1924

girls

1,248,872 girls got a published name in 1924; 1 in 4,177 of them was named Robert, which outranked 93.3% of the 5,900 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Robert
  1. #395Kay302
  2. #396Lilly301
  3. #397Johanna300
  4. #398Robert299
  5. #399Tillie297
  6. #400Rosemarie296
  7. #401Maudie295
Biggest movers since 1923
Risers
  1. ↑ 459Bettylou#1,327 → #868
  2. ↑ 374Doloris#1,350 → #976
  3. ↑ 332Gaynell#1,283 → #951
  4. ↑ 313Toby#1,305 → #992
  5. ↑ 262Letty#1,213 → #951
Fallers
  1. ↓ 388Izola#966 → #1,354
  2. ↓ 305Fumiko#953 → #1,258
  3. ↓ 303Clemmie#941 → #1,244
  4. ↓ 276Cruz#793 → #1,069
  5. ↓ 271Eris#457 → #728

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,132,742 boys got a published name in 1924; 1 in 19 of them was named Robert, which outranked 100.0% of the 4,970 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Robert
  1. #1Robert60,802
  2. #2John59,052
  3. #3William53,506
  4. #4James52,942
Biggest movers since 1923
Risers
  1. ↑ 436Faustino#1,420 → #984
  2. ↑ 338Conway#1,275 → #937
  3. ↑ 310Coolidge#1,041 → #731
  4. ↑ 291Chas#1,235 → #944
  5. ↑ 287Leopoldo#1,194 → #907
Fallers
  1. ↓ 466Cliff#992 → #1,458
  2. ↓ 403Harding#860 → #1,263
  3. ↓ 367Dempsey#750 → #1,117
  4. ↓ 363Price#924 → #1,287
  5. ↓ 350Terrence#873 → #1,223

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1924 →