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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 0.000025948 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 0.00005968 58 68 -8%
1933 127 0.000063519 58 69 -9%
1934 161 0.000077524 65 96 -19%
1935 156 0.000074648 65 91 -17%
1936 149 0.00007172 69 80 -7%
1937 173 0.000081197 80 93 -8%
1938 229 0.0001035 104 125 -9%
1939 297 0.000134791 131 166 -12%
1940 406 0.000176323 206 200 1%
1941 447 0.000183472 239 208 7%
1942 567 0.000207561 310 257 9%
1943 570 0.000201948 333 237 17%
1944 643 0.000239033 375 268 17%
1945 914 0.000344535 621 293 36%
1946 1202 0.000376184 773 429 29%
1947 1501 0.000416687 936 565 25%
1948 1666 0.000482552 1094 572 31%
1949 1938 0.000556143 1281 657 32%
1950 2728 0.000778671 1991 737 46%
1951 3847 0.001044312 2891 956 50%
1952 4727 0.001244591 3641 1086 54%
1953 7763 0.002014475 6038 1725 56%
1954 10835 0.002721876 9043 1792 67%
1955 12058 0.003003187 10217 1841 69%
1956 13867 0.003363258 11622 2245 68%
1957 14453 0.003439148 12584 1869 74%
1958 12987 0.003142447 11545 1442 78%
1959 14384 0.003460419 12853 1531 79%
1960 15403 0.003707733 13972 1431 81%
1961 17502 0.004226591 15650 1852 79%
1962 16662 0.004129319 15129 1533 82%
1963 15790 0.003988794 14433 1357 83%
1964 15489 0.003984131 14330 1159 85%
1965 12907 0.003559938 11992 915 86%
1966 10293 0.002961477 9440 853 83%
1967 8323 0.002451539 7693 630 85%
1968 8775 0.002597263 8182 593 86%
1969 8024 0.002308636 7501 523 87%
1970 7616 0.00211155 7004 612 84%
1971 6775 0.00197379 6213 562 83%
1972 5885 0.001872225 5368 517 82%
1973 5204 0.001724823 4806 398 85%
1974 4949 0.00162785 4524 425 83%
1975 4738 0.001569014 4329 409 83%
1976 4018 0.001324048 3624 394 80%
1977 3796 0.00119495 3428 368 81%
1978 3828 0.001205977 3442 386 80%
1979 3705 0.001113511 3206 499 73%
1980 3250 0.00094344 2807 443 73%
1981 3325 0.000961097 2869 456 73%
1982 3174 0.000904743 2767 407 74%
1983 2799 0.000808156 2387 412 71%
1984 2546 0.000729777 2111 435 66%
1985 2384 0.000667972 2012 372 69%
1986 2620 0.000736586 2266 354 73%
1987 2215 0.00061435 1911 304 73%
1988 2091 0.000565937 1765 326 69%
1989 2123 0.000552246 1799 324 69%
1990 1695 0.000428885 1414 281 67%
1991 1539 0.000395123 1233 306 60%
1992 1356 0.000353036 1056 300 56%
1993 1294 0.000343238 998 296 54%
1994 1029 0.00027681 799 230 55%
1995 951 0.000259702 726 225 53%
1996 897 0.000245961 719 178 60%
1997 772 0.000212935 596 176 54%
1998 654 0.000177815 496 158 52%
1999 620 0.000167857 462 158 49%
2000 559 0.000147899 423 136 51%
2001 491 0.000131175 359 132 46%
2002 393 0.000105142 271 122 38%
2003 367 0.000096534 255 112 39%
2004 385 0.000100776 253 132 31%
2005 344 0.000089486 214 130 24%
2006 346 0.000087477 226 120 31%
2007 344 0.000086072 214 130 24%
2008 307 0.000078128 188 119 22%
2009 271 0.000070964 178 93 31%
2010 266 0.000072 158 108 19%
2011 247 0.000067554 146 101 18%
2012 279 0.000076319 175 104 25%
2013 347 0.000095234 190 157 10%
2014 418 0.000112845 226 192 8%
2015 473 0.000127894 260 213 10%
2016 408 0.000111297 238 170 17%
2017 457 0.000127912 256 201 12%
2018 472 0.000134406 270 202 14%
2019 518 0.00014946 261 257 1%
2020 548 0.000164368 289 259 5%
2021 546 0.000161552 290 256 6%
2022 637 0.000189476 321 316 1%