Roben — unisex name

What the Data Says About Roben

The Social Security Administration has registered 314 babies named Roben between 1952 and 2000, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Roben currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Roben is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 130 additional births since 1956.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Roben performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Roben shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Roben in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Roben in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 314 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.