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Robb

#13,487 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Robb has been given to 3,194 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #13,487 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 246 recorded.

Babies named Robb, 2025

1 in 663,000

Robb over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Robb: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Robb means

Robb is a given name.

The naming story behind Robb

Wikidata records Robb as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q28439854, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,194 boys were recorded with the name Robb between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 246 in 1970; its best national rank was #502 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,645 in 2020 to #13,487 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Robb?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,487
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Robb sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Robb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Robbs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Robb was born before 1969 — so the typical Robb is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.94%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,071
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Choose a decade

1960s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (1,117).

Is Robb rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+158
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
2.0%
Peak was 1970 (246)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#502
1969

Spellings of Robb

Robb is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 34.1% against Robb's 0.27%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Robb is used

Across 1910–2025, Robb was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 84,038 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 16,667
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Robb has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Robb around the world

Where Robb ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    1993–2000
    #429
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1946–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Robb

People whose public names include Robb, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Robb by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,487
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 158
Best rank ever
#502
1969
Peak year
1970
246 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,194
Count in 2025
5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Robb

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Robb, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Robb

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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