Robina

Girls' name

Feminine form of Robin

Robina has been given to 649 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1954, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Robina, 2022

1 in 677,000

Robina over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Robina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Robin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Robina means

Robina is a feminine form of Robin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Robina is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Robina → Robin → Robert. The family’s meaning is “shining glory”, recorded in English with the source elements Hrōþiberhtaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Robina is used in English and Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Robin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 649 girls were recorded with the name Robina between 1884 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,146 in 1884.

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 Robina?

Robina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Robina 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Robina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Robinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Robina was born before 1955 — so the typical Robina is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.77%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
398
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1950s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Robina 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1954 (21)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,146
1884

Spellings of Robina

Robina is not the most common spelling — Robin is, with 41.9% against Robina's 0.09%.

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 Robina is used

Across 1910–2025, Robina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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

Robina around the world

Where Robina 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
    1996–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • Scotland
    1975–1978
    #453
    in 1978
  • South Australia
    1944–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Robina 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,146
1884
Peak year
1954
21 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
649
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Robina

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

Sibling names for Robina

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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