Roby
Roby was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,454 among boys’ names; 2,599 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Roby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 36 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roby?
#10,454 among boys’ names, 2025
Roby rose from #13,628 in 2015 to #10,454 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 4.1 per million.
50 babies in 1964, the peak
Roby peaked in 1964, when 50 boys were given it, #1,078 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,454 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,134 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,177 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,679 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,645 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,090 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,511 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,505 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,783 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,628 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | #6,913 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 12 | #7,004 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,019 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,596 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,045 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,383 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,925 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,746 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,356 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,454 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,346 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,338 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,407 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,749 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,194 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,372 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,455 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,837 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,118 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,276 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,419 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,034 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,581 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,491 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,917 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,065 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,558 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,873 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,820 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,798 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,866 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,068 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,446 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,460 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,254 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,159 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,516 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 27 | #1,782 | 17.2 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,770 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,498 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 27 | #1,735 | 15.3 |
| 1970 | 33 | #1,487 | 17.8 |
| 1969 | 37 | #1,318 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 31 | #1,421 | 17.8 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,602 | 13.8 |
| 1966 | 27 | #1,507 | 15.1 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,251 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,078 | 25.1 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,300 | 18.2 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,290 | 17.9 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,245 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,333 | 16.9 |
| 1959 | 30 | #1,460 | 14.1 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,392 | 15.1 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,480 | 13.4 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,311 | 16.5 |
| 1955 | 24 | #1,602 | 11.7 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,402 | 14.7 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,401 | 15.2 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,060 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,821 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,868 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,223 | 19.7 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,273 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,112 | 23.5 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,230 | 20.3 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,525 | 14.9 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,323 | 19.1 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,357 | 18.9 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,414 | 18.1 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,579 | 16.3 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,306 | 23.3 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,570 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,552 | 18.0 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,397 | 22.5 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,221 | 28.9 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,270 | 27.8 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,115 | 34.9 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,077 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,379 | 24.9 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,484 | 22.1 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,594 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,441 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,950 | 15.3 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,594 | 21.3 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,399 | 25.2 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,417 | 25.1 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,403 | 25.6 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,377 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,463 | 24.8 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,439 | 25.4 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,316 | 29.1 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,117 | 39.8 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,028 | 43.4 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,386 | 28.1 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,259 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,402 | 28.3 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,218 | 36.7 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,427 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,492 | 14.0 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,269 | 39.8 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,553 | 30.9 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,416 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,010 | 58.3 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,314 | 40.9 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,179 | 46.8 |
| 1901 | 8 | #840 | 75.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,466 | 33.2 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,032 | 56.5 |
| 1898 | 8 | #873 | 65.2 |
| 1896 | 8 | #884 | 66.9 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,060 | 51.1 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,208 | 43.2 |
| 1890 | 7 | #865 | 63.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,014 | 49.6 |
| 1886 | 6 | #942 | 54.2 |
| 1884 | 6 | #953 | 52.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,599 Americans recorded as Roby, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roby, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 52% of the 2,599 Americans ever recorded as Roby. The median Roby alive today is 55 years old; half are between 36 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 1,625 people named Roby (224 women and girls, 1,401 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,473 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 88 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 423 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 375 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 217 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 73 |
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 Roby born?
The states with the most babies named Roby are North Carolina, Texas and Virginia, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 268 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Texas | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 57 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| West Virginia | 22 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Roby is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roby is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.5 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 Roby with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Roby?
Roby is a less common spelling of Robby: SSA has recorded 2,599 Roby and 10,780 Robby since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 15,336 babies since 1880, Roby is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 29 babies (24%), again the second most given.
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 Roby
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 Roby and names like it
- Compare Roby and RobbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRoby peaked in 1964.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roby since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Roby.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roby alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.