Name Trends

See the popularity of names over time in the USA

How popular is “Robin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Robin” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Robin” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Robin” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Robin” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Robin” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Robin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Robin” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 12 0.000029741 6 6 0%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 12 0.000023473 5 7 -17%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 26 0.000026314 8 18 -38%
1913 21 0.000018468 10 11 -5%
1914 32 0.000022593 6 26 -63%
1915 44 0.000024012 17 27 -23%
1916 33 0.000017059 6 27 -64%
1917 44 0.000021926 11 33 -50%
1918 39 0.000017963 19 20 -3%
1919 40 0.000018955 8 32 -60%
1920 66 0.000029169 20 46 -39%
1921 53 0.000022703 15 38 -43%
1922 70 0.000030579 33 37 -6%
1923 60 0.000026059 24 36 -20%
1924 72 0.000030232 30 42 -17%
1925 89 0.000038143 42 47 -6%
1926 82 0.000035716 19 63 -54%
1927 95 0.00004096 38 57 -20%
1928 90 0.000039806 36 54 -20%
1929 106 0.000048354 46 60 -13%
1930 121 0.000054424 50 71 -17%
1931 97 0.000046094 37 60 -24%
1932 126 0.000059679 58 68 -8%
1933 127 0.000063518 58 69 -9%
1934 161 0.000077523 65 96 -19%
1935 156 0.000074645 65 91 -17%
1936 149 0.000071718 69 80 -7%
1937 173 0.000081195 80 93 -8%
1938 229 0.000103499 104 125 -9%
1939 297 0.000134789 131 166 -12%
1940 406 0.000176316 206 200 1%
1941 447 0.000183466 239 208 7%
1942 567 0.000207554 310 257 9%
1943 570 0.000201944 333 237 17%
1944 643 0.000239026 375 268 17%
1945 914 0.000344527 621 293 36%
1946 1202 0.000376177 773 429 29%
1947 1500 0.000416398 936 564 25%
1948 1666 0.000482546 1094 572 31%
1949 1938 0.000556133 1281 657 32%
1950 2728 0.000778681 1991 737 46%
1951 3847 0.001044319 2891 956 50%
1952 4727 0.001244601 3641 1086 54%
1953 7763 0.002014457 6038 1725 56%
1954 10836 0.002722129 9044 1792 67%
1955 12058 0.003003178 10217 1841 69%
1956 13868 0.00336354 11621 2247 68%
1957 14446 0.00343777 12579 1867 74%
1958 12994 0.003143276 11548 1446 78%
1959 14381 0.003458641 12854 1527 79%
1960 15404 0.003708398 13972 1432 81%
1961 17503 0.004225429 15651 1852 79%
1962 16662 0.004128987 15129 1533 82%
1963 15791 0.003989439 14434 1357 83%
1964 15488 0.003983944 14329 1159 85%
1965 12911 0.003561214 11995 916 86%
1966 10293 0.002961456 9440 853 83%
1967 8323 0.002451621 7693 630 85%
1968 8775 0.002597373 8181 594 86%
1969 8024 0.00230885 7502 522 87%
1970 7616 0.002111735 7004 612 84%
1971 6775 0.001973863 6213 562 83%
1972 5885 0.001872418 5368 517 82%
1973 5203 0.001724625 4805 398 85%
1974 4950 0.00162829 4525 425 83%
1975 4737 0.001568858 4328 409 83%
1976 4017 0.001323864 3623 394 80%
1977 3797 0.001195343 3429 368 81%
1978 3827 0.001205783 3440 387 80%
1979 3707 0.001114217 3208 499 73%
1980 3251 0.000943822 2808 443 73%
1981 3323 0.000960578 2867 456 73%
1982 3175 0.000905084 2768 407 74%
1983 2799 0.00080818 2387 412 71%
1984 2546 0.000729773 2111 435 66%
1985 2383 0.000667673 2012 371 69%
1986 2620 0.00073656 2266 354 73%
1987 2215 0.00061432 1911 304 73%
1988 2091 0.000565893 1765 326 69%
1989 2124 0.000552485 1800 324 69%
1990 1696 0.000429098 1414 282 67%
1991 1539 0.000395095 1233 306 60%
1992 1356 0.000353008 1056 300 56%
1993 1294 0.000343211 998 296 54%
1994 1029 0.000276788 799 230 55%
1995 952 0.000259956 727 225 53%
1996 897 0.000245942 719 178 60%
1997 772 0.000212922 596 176 54%
1998 654 0.000177804 496 158 52%
1999 620 0.000167846 462 158 49%
2000 559 0.000147887 423 136 51%
2001 491 0.000131165 359 132 46%
2002 393 0.000105128 271 122 38%
2003 367 0.00009652 255 112 39%
2004 386 0.000101023 253 133 31%
2005 344 0.00008947 214 130 24%
2006 346 0.000087458 226 120 31%
2007 344 0.00008605 214 130 24%
2008 307 0.000078104 188 119 22%
2009 271 0.000070939 178 93 31%
2010 266 0.000071975 158 108 19%
2011 247 0.000067527 146 101 18%
2012 279 0.000076284 175 104 25%
2013 347 0.000095181 190 157 10%
2014 418 0.000112779 226 192 8%
2015 473 0.000127806 260 213 10%
2016 411 0.000112029 239 172 16%
2017 457 0.000127789 256 201 12%
2018 474 0.000134816 271 203 14%
2019 519 0.000149528 262 257 1%
2020 551 0.000164942 292 259 6%
2021 547 0.000161455 291 256 6%
2022 642 0.000189765 324 318 1%
2023 680 0.000205364 358 322 5%
2024 661 0.000198588 351 310 6%