Roby is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Recently, the name Roby has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Roby. That means that a boy named Roby is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Roby.
Roby is not one of the particularly popular names. In fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2014, where the name Roby was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If your name is Roby and you were born in the USA in 2014, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Roby even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1904, it ranked on position 607 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Roby was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Roby has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 10 times by young parents to their newborn children and thus landed on position 6,627 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular boys' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 10 boys named Roby, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Roby'.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Roby. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 430 Americans who bear this name. And these 430 men and boys named Roby live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Roby lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Roby and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Roby relative to its male population is North Carolina. And even there, only one male in 17,112 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Roby.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Roby is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Roby 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 Roby, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
Butterfly
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Roby
Roby
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
O
B
Y
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
O
B
Y
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. Roby sounds like this:
