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Roby

#10,454 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Roby has been given to 2,599 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #10,454 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 50 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Roby, 2025

1 in 474,000

Roby over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Roby went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18842025

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.

Roby: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roby means

Roby is a given name.

The naming story behind Roby

Wikidata records Roby as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q19968326, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,481 boys were recorded with the name Roby between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1964; its best national rank was #840 in 1901.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,646 in 2020 to #10,454 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,628 in 2015 to #10,454 in 2025.

In the United States, 118 girls were recorded with the name Roby between 1904 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,827 in 1904.

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.

How common is Roby?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,454
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roby 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Robys were born

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

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
14.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,363
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 14.4% of all recorded uses (358).

Is Roby 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
+3,192
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,174
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.0%
Peak was 1964 (50)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#840
1901

Spellings of Roby

Roby is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 15.0% against Roby'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 Roby is used

Across 1910–2025, Roby was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 153,958 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 20,000
  2. 2Virginia1 in 100,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Roby has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Roby around the world

Where Roby 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
    2012–2023
    #2,161
    in 2023
  • France
    1947–2024
    #3,453
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Roby

People whose public names include Roby, 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.

Roby in other languages

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

Robey

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

Roby by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,454
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,192
Best rank ever
#840
1901
Peak year
1964
50 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,481
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,827
1904
Peak year
1915
9 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
118
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Roby

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

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Names with a curve like Roby

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

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Sibling names for Roby

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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