Robin

Where Robin comes from

* (masculine given name): From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert. * (feminine given name): From the bird, robin, or from Germanic.
— Wiktionary's entry for Robin
  • Romance
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Robin through the years
  1. 1904
    First appearance
    #1,659 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1951
    Robin Williams born
    American actor and comedian
  4. 1962
    Peak, #25
    15,128 babies named Robin, its best rank.
  5. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #46.
  6. 1983
    Robin van Persie born
    Dutch association football player and manager
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, also associated with the bird robin.
Namesakes
  • Robin Williams · American actor and comedian, 1951–2014
  • Robin van Persie · Dutch association football player and manager, born 1983
  • Robin Wright · American actress, born 1966
  • Robin Warren · Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate, 1937–2024
  • Robin Tunneyio · American actress, born 1972

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.