The name Robyn was invented as a feminine form of Robin, which originally was a medieval diminutive of Robert. This name has Germanic origins and means ‘bright fame’. Since the early 20th century, Robin is a unisex name in the US.
Robyn is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Robyn is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,039 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,038 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 59,533 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Robyn. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Robyn was invented as a feminine form of Robin, which originally was a medieval diminutive of Robert. This name has Germanic origins and means ‘bright fame’. Since the early 20th century, Robin is a unisex name in the US.
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The name Robyn may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Robyn is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 722 women in Utah is called Robyn. In total, that’s 1,618 women who feel addressed when the name Robyn is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #190 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Robyn as the answer a total of 59,504 times. This places Robyn at #461 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Robyn as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 Robyn 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 Robyn 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 Robyn, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
Butterfly
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Robyn
Robyn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
O
B
Y
N
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
N
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. Robyn sounds like this:
