Roby

Where Roby comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Roby.

  • Vowel-ended
Roby through the years
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #848 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1901
    Peak, #779
    8 babies named Roby, its best rank.
  3. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1907
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  5. 1942
    Roby Young born
    Israeli footballer
  6. 1965
    Roby Lakatos born
    jazz violinist, composer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Roby Lakatos · jazz violinist, composer, born 1965
  • Roby Young · Israeli footballer, born 1942
  • Roby Zucchi · Italian water skier, born 1951
  • Roby Hentges · Luxembourgish cyclist, born 1940
  • Roby Järventie · Finnish ice hockey player, born 2002

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.