Robin was originally a medieval diminutive of Robert, from the Germanic name Hrodebert meaning ‘bright fame’. Since the 20th century, Robin is also given to girls as an independent name.
Robin is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
The name Robin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Robin ranks 941. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Robin. In the entire USA, approximately 326,231 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Robin. That is 0.10 % of all living Americans.
Robin was originally a medieval diminutive of Robert, from the Germanic name Hrodebert meaning ‘bright fame’. Since the 20th century, Robin is also given to girls as an independent name.
Robin was a... popular first name in the 1950s and 1960s, but it has been rare since then.
#22 - this is the highest position Robin has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Robin reached this top position was in the last century, in 1961, when 17,500 newborn girls were named Robin. But as our statistics show, Robin has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1902, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Robin is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Robin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 637 newborns were given the name Robin, making them rank #454. Although the name Robin was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Robin are still there in our contemporary times.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Robin. Because: There are women and girls named Robin in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Robin is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Maryland, where Robin ranks on place 76. The greatest chance of meeting Robin, however, is in Delaware, where one in 273 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 541 women and girls and in Utah, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,043 women and girls for their name before you once get Robin as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Robin is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Robin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Robin, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
Butterfly
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Robin
Robin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
O
B
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
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B
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Robin sounds like this:
