Robb
Robb was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,487 among boys’ names; 3,194 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Robb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 50 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Robb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Robb?
#13,487 among boys’ names, 2025
Robb entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,487 in 2025.
246 babies in 1970, the peak
Robb peaked in 1970, when 246 boys were given it, #513 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,487 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,644 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,658 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,724 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,278 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,933 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,577 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,262 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,793 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 12 | #5,049 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,637 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,057 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,962 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,243 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,919 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 36 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 28 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,509 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,472 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 40 | #1,539 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 43 | #1,430 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 75 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 84 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 82 | #897 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 92 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 156 | #633 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 149 | #680 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 246 | #513 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 237 | #502 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 214 | #519 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 90 | #773 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 90 | #771 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 94 | #763 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 102 | #758 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 87 | #814 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 89 | #806 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 55 | #1,055 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,005 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,151 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 57 | #1,011 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 64 | #954 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,052 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,150 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,401 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,273 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,426 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,673 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,734 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,761 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,808 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,772 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,248 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,689 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,061 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,946 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,431 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,840 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,296 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,052 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,462 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Robb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Robb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Robb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Robb, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 3,194 Americans ever recorded as Robb. The median Robb alive today is 56 years old; half are between 50 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 3,084 people named Robb (11 women and girls, 3,073 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,784 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 603 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,580 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 46 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Robb born?
The states with the most babies named Robb are California, Minnesota and Michigan, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 284 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 199 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Michigan | 152 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 148 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 131 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 105 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 105 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 74 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 57 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 42 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Robb is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Robb is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1917 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Robb with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 11,969 babies since 1880, Robb is the second most given (27% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Robb
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Robb and names like it
- Compare Robb and RobBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRobb peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Robb since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Robb.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Robb alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.