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Roberts

Boys' name

Form of Robert

Roberts has been given to 422 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1922, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Roberts, 1999

1 in 615,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roberts: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Robert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roberts means

Roberts is a form of Robert.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Roberts is used in Latvian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Roberts is a form of Robert. Robert has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Roberts is used in English and Latvian.

Roberts comes through Indonesian patronymic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Robert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 422 boys were recorded with the name Roberts between 1913 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,061 in 1913.

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 Roberts?

Roberts had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 615,000
6 of 3,692,373 births
Among boys only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,561 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roberts 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 1999 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 426,561 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roberts. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Robertss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roberts was born before 1940 — so the typical Roberts is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
153
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1920s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Roberts 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 1922 (14)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,061
1913

Spellings of Roberts

Roberts is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 97.4% against Roberts's <0.01%.

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 Roberts is used

Across 1910–2025, Roberts was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Roberts around the world

Where Roberts 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
    2004–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2007–2016
    #601
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1954–1965
    #574
    in 1965

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

Roberts 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
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Best rank ever
#2,061
1913
Peak year
1922
14 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
422
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Roberts

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

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Sibling names for Roberts

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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