Rober

Boys' name

Diminutive of Roberto

Rober has been given to 414 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1984, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Rober, 1995

1 in 523,000

Rober over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rober: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Roberto

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rober means

Rober is a diminutive of Roberto.

Origin, language, and formation

Rober is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roberto.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 414 boys were recorded with the name Rober between 1917 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1984; its best national rank was #2,114 in 1967.

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.

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How common is Rober?

Rober had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995: 1 in 523,000; 7 of 3,660,254 births
Among boys only: 1 in 272,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1995: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 362,443 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Rober 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 1995 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 362,443 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rober. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Robers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rober was born before 1970 — so the typical Rober is around 55 today.

Median birth year: 1970; About 55 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 48.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 346; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Rober 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1984 (16)
Years since peak: 41; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 57.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,114; 1967

Spellings of Rober

Rober is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 81.1% against Rober's <0.01%.

Robert81.1%4,849,730
Roger7.4%442,142
Ruben1.9%116,552
Roberto1.9%112,643
Ryder1.1%66,639
Homer1.0%60,912
Robin0.78%46,952
Ryker0.69%41,204

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 Rober is used

Across 1910–2025, Rober was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,332,384 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New 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. Rober has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rober by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,114; 1967
Peak year: 1984; 16 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 1995
All-time count: 414
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Rober

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

Robel Robyn Arber Ember Robbi Saber Robet Kimber Robt Robley Jaber Robie Robey Roben Roberth Taber Roby Huber Timber Roberts Robb Dovber Robbert Eber

Sibling names for Rober

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

For a sister

Venessa Linsey Candis Afton Tanesha Kristan Matthew Tera

For a brother

Marques Brenton Jerrod Whitney Shea Jamaal Darnell Derik

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