Roberto

Where Roberto comes from

Roberto 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1897
    First appearance
    #942 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Roberto Benigni born
    Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director
  3. 1967
    Roberto Baggio born
    Italian association football player
  4. 1980
    Peak, #145
    1,881 babies named Roberto — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #358.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Roberto Baggio · Italian association football player, born 1967
  • Roberto Benigni · Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director, born 1952
  • Roberto Firmino · Brazilian association football player, born 1991
  • Roberto Rossellini · Italian film director, 1906–1977
  • Roberto Mancini · Italian association football player and manager, born 1964

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.