Roben
Roben was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 444 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roben by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roben?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,626, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1961, the peak
Roben peaked in 1961, when 30 babies were given it (21 girls, #2,726 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #11,885 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,626 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,783 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,488 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,969 | 5 | #9,510 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #7,008 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,951 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,556 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #5,390 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,861 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,653 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,836 | 8 | #4,106 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,780 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,366 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #4,295 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,883 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,971 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,431 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,301 | 5 | #4,429 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,900 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,507 | 14 | #2,248 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,841 | 7 | #3,539 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,596 | 10 | #2,817 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,403 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,726 | 9 | #3,053 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,323 | 10 | #2,833 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,222 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,834 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,630 | 8 | #3,204 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,602 | 6 | #3,863 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,534 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,291 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,168 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,832 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Roben a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 444 Americans recorded as Roben, 71% are girls and 29% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roben: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roben, and how old are they?
An estimated 381 Americans named Roben and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 54 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 741 people named Roben (362 women and girls, 379 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 416,794 babies since 1880, Roben is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 949 babies recorded by SSA was a Roben (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 Roben
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 Roben and names like it
- Compare Roben and RobinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRoben peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roben since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Roben.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roben alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.