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Robby

#4,674 in 2025Boys' name

Shining glory, through Robert

Robby has been given to 10,780 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #4,674 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 412 recorded.

Babies named Robby, 2025

1 in 151,000

Robby over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Robby: meaning, origin, and history

Shining glory, through Robert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Robby means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Robby is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Robert and Roberta.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,565 boys were recorded with the name Robby between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 412 in 1964; its best national rank was #393 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,242 in 2020 to #4,674 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,152 in 2015 to #4,674 in 2025.

In the United States, 215 girls were recorded with the name Robby between 1921 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1964; its best national rank was #3,626 in 1944.

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 Robby?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,674
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Robby 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Robby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Robbys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Robby was born before 1971 — so the typical Robby is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
10,094
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (3,313).

Is Robby 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
−142
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−432
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−522
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.3%
Peak was 1964 (412)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#393
1964

Spellings of Robby

Robby is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 39.2% against Robby's 1.0%.

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 Robby is used

Across 1910–2025, Robby was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 22,555 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 9,091
  2. 2Texas1 in 10,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 12,500
  4. 4Georgia1 in 12,500
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 12,500
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 14,286
  7. 7Alabama1 in 16,667
  8. 8Indiana1 in 16,667

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

Robby around the world

Where Robby 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1998–1998
    #422
    in 1998
  • France
    1969–2025
    #4,406
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,931
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1964–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Robby

People whose public names include Robby, 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.

Robby in other languages

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

Robert

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

Robby by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,674
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 432
Best rank ever
#393
1964
Peak year
1964
412 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,565
Count in 2025
22

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,626
1944
Peak year
1964
12 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
215
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Robby

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

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Names with a curve like Robby

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

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Sibling names for Robby

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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