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Robbin

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Shining glory, through Robin

Robbin has been given to 10,384 babies in the U.S. since 1933. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1959, with 650 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.

Babies named Robbin, 2023

1 in 663,000

Robbin over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Robbin over time

In 2023, Robbin went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19292023

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Robbin: meaning, origin, and history

Shining glory, through Robin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Robbin means

Robbin belongs to the name family reached through Robbin → Robin → Robert. Its meaning is “shining glory”.

Origin, language, and formation

Robbin is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Robin and Robert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,590 girls were recorded with the name Robbin between 1933 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 650 in 1959; its best national rank was #374 in 1959.

In the United States, 1,794 boys were recorded with the name Robbin between 1929 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1957; its best national rank was #797 in 1954.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Robbin?

Robbin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Robbin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Robbin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Robbins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Robbin was born before 1962 — so the typical Robbin is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
8,356
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (3,558).

Is Robbin 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (650)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#374
1959

Spellings of Robbin

Robbin is not the most common spelling — Robin is, with 57.6% against Robbin's 1.7%.

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 Robbin is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Robbin was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 23,520 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 14,286
  2. 2Michigan1 in 16,667
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 16,667
  4. 4Alabama1 in 20,000
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 20,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 20,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Robbin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Robbin is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Robbin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 282,150 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

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. Robbin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Robbin around the world

Where Robbin 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.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Robbin

People whose public names include Robbin, 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.

Robbin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Robbin. Linked forms have their own page here.

Robbyn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Robbin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#374
1959
Peak year
1959
650 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
8,590
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#797
1954
Peak year
1957
85 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,794
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Robbin

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

RobinRobertRobbieRobynnRobbiRobynRobbynRobertaRobyneCorbinRobinaRobenaRobbyeRobertoRobieRobiyaKorbinRobynneRobenRoberthaRobbyRobinetteRobiRobecca

Names with a curve like Robbin

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

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Sibling names for Robbin

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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