Robbyn
Robbyn was last recorded in 2019, when 7 babies were given it; 1,066 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Robbyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Robbyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,523, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1962, the peak
Robbyn peaked in 1962, when 45 girls were given it, #1,702 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 | #13,523 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,280 | 3.5 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,137 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,603 | 2.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,422 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,346 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,948 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,625 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,319 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,915 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | #10,580 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,312 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,405 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,491 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,925 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,227 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,832 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,189 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,447 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,210 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,840 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,497 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,806 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,149 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,122 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,139 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,682 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,835 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,335 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,871 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,879 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,785 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,030 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,334 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,092 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,496 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,461 | 18.6 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,687 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,826 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,691 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,766 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,555 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,019 | 19.3 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,914 | 20.6 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,914 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,702 | 22.9 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,235 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,493 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,940 | 16.8 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,895 | 16.9 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,263 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,092 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,390 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,177 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,283 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,319 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,497 | 22.2 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,162 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,175 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Robbyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Robbyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Robbyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Robbyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 950 Americans named Robbyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 44 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,011 people named Robbyn (962 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 984 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Robbyn?
Robbyn is a less common spelling of Robin: SSA has recorded 1,066 Robbyn and 338,913 Robin since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 416,794 babies since 1880, Robbyn is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 949 babies recorded by SSA was a Robbyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Robbyn
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 Robbyn and names like it
- Compare Robbyn and RobinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRobbyn peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Robbyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Robbyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Robbyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.