Roberta

Where Roberta comes from

By surface analysis, Robert + -a.
— Wiktionary's entry for Roberta
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #265 among girls — 34 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1936
    Peak, #64
    3,467 babies named Roberta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1937
    Roberta Flack born
    American singer
  4. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #195.
  5. 1979
    Roberta Metsola born
    President of the European Parliament since 2022
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, masculine equivalent Robert.
Namesakes
  • Roberta Metsola · President of the European Parliament since 2022, born 1979
  • Roberta Flack · American singer, 1937–2025
  • Roberta Bondar · Canadian astronaut, born 1945
  • Roberta Vinci · Italian female tennis player, born 1983
  • Roberta Williams · American video game designer, born 1953

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.