Robinson — #3518 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Robinson

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,889 babies named Robinson between 1900 and 2024, spanning 125 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Robinson currently holds the #3518 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 64 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Robinson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 520 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Robinson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 457 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Robinson in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Robinson 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 2,889 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.