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How popular is “Robin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Robin” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Robin” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Robin” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Robin” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Robin” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Robin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Robin” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 12 0.000029741 6 6 0%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 12 0.000023473 5 7 -17%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 26 0.000026314 8 18 -38%
1913 21 0.000018468 10 11 -5%
1914 32 0.000022593 6 26 -63%
1915 44 0.000024012 17 27 -23%
1916 33 0.000017059 6 27 -64%
1917 44 0.000021926 11 33 -50%
1918 39 0.000017963 19 20 -3%
1919 40 0.000018955 8 32 -60%
1920 66 0.000029169 20 46 -39%
1921 53 0.000022703 15 38 -43%
1922 70 0.000030579 33 37 -6%
1923 60 0.000026059 24 36 -20%
1924 72 0.000030232 30 42 -17%
1925 89 0.000038143 42 47 -6%
1926 82 0.000035716 19 63 -54%
1927 95 0.00004096 38 57 -20%
1928 90 0.000039807 36 54 -20%
1929 106 0.000048354 46 60 -13%
1930 121 0.000054424 50 71 -17%
1931 97 0.000046095 37 60 -24%
1932 126 0.000059679 58 68 -8%
1933 127 0.000063518 58 69 -9%
1934 161 0.000077523 65 96 -19%
1935 156 0.000074646 65 91 -17%
1936 149 0.000071719 69 80 -7%
1937 173 0.000081197 80 93 -8%
1938 229 0.000103499 104 125 -9%
1939 297 0.00013479 131 166 -12%
1940 406 0.00017632 206 200 1%
1941 447 0.000183469 239 208 7%
1942 567 0.000207559 310 257 9%
1943 570 0.000201945 333 237 17%
1944 643 0.000239028 375 268 17%
1945 914 0.000344533 621 293 36%
1946 1202 0.00037618 773 429 29%
1947 1501 0.000416683 936 565 25%
1948 1666 0.000482548 1094 572 31%
1949 1938 0.000556139 1281 657 32%
1950 2728 0.000778679 1991 737 46%
1951 3847 0.001044324 2891 956 50%
1952 4727 0.001244601 3641 1086 54%
1953 7764 0.002014733 6039 1725 56%
1954 10835 0.002721894 9043 1792 67%
1955 12058 0.003003214 10217 1841 69%
1956 13868 0.003363539 11621 2247 68%
1957 14450 0.003438788 12583 1867 74%
1958 12993 0.003142772 11547 1446 78%
1959 14380 0.003459458 12852 1528 79%
1960 15401 0.003707581 13971 1430 81%
1961 17504 0.004226026 15651 1853 79%
1962 16662 0.004129551 15129 1533 82%
1963 15790 0.003989054 14433 1357 83%
1964 15487 0.003983729 14328 1159 85%
1965 12910 0.003560907 11995 915 86%
1966 10293 0.002961528 9440 853 83%
1967 8323 0.002451631 7693 630 85%
1968 8775 0.002597412 8182 593 86%
1969 8024 0.002308833 7501 523 87%
1970 7616 0.002111742 7004 612 84%
1971 6775 0.001973904 6213 562 83%
1972 5885 0.001872404 5368 517 82%
1973 5203 0.001724645 4805 398 85%
1974 4950 0.001628289 4525 425 83%
1975 4736 0.001568538 4327 409 83%
1976 4018 0.001324188 3624 394 80%
1977 3796 0.001195059 3428 368 81%
1978 3830 0.001206748 3442 388 80%
1979 3705 0.001113629 3206 499 73%
1980 3250 0.000943536 2807 443 73%
1981 3324 0.000960879 2868 456 73%
1982 3175 0.000905089 2768 407 74%
1983 2799 0.000808194 2387 412 71%
1984 2546 0.000729794 2111 435 66%
1985 2383 0.000667699 2012 371 69%
1986 2620 0.000736587 2266 354 73%
1987 2215 0.000614341 1911 304 73%
1988 2091 0.000565921 1765 326 69%
1989 2124 0.000552502 1800 324 69%
1990 1696 0.000429123 1414 282 67%
1991 1539 0.000395113 1233 306 60%
1992 1356 0.000353026 1056 300 56%
1993 1294 0.000343224 998 296 54%
1994 1029 0.0002768 799 230 55%
1995 952 0.000259966 727 225 53%
1996 897 0.000245953 719 178 60%
1997 772 0.000212928 596 176 54%
1998 654 0.00017781 496 158 52%
1999 620 0.000167851 462 158 49%
2000 559 0.000147892 423 136 51%
2001 491 0.000131169 359 132 46%
2002 393 0.000105133 271 122 38%
2003 367 0.000096528 255 112 39%
2004 386 0.00010103 253 133 31%
2005 344 0.000089477 214 130 24%
2006 346 0.000087467 226 120 31%
2007 344 0.000086059 214 130 24%
2008 307 0.000078115 188 119 22%
2009 271 0.000070952 178 93 31%
2010 266 0.000071986 158 108 19%
2011 247 0.000067539 146 101 18%
2012 279 0.000076299 175 104 25%
2013 347 0.000095204 190 157 10%
2014 418 0.000112808 226 192 8%
2015 473 0.000127843 260 213 10%
2016 411 0.000112065 239 172 16%
2017 457 0.000127842 256 201 12%
2018 473 0.000134599 270 203 14%
2019 519 0.00014962 262 257 1%
2020 551 0.000165077 292 259 6%
2021 547 0.00016161 291 256 6%
2022 642 0.000190019 324 318 1%
2023 676 0.00020502 354 322 5%