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How popular is “Robyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Robyn” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Robyn” 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 “Robyn” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Robyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Robyn” 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
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 100%
1938 13 0.000005876 13 100%
1939 30 0.000013615 30 100%
1940 33 0.000014331 28 5 70%
1941 24 0.00000985 24 100%
1942 38 0.00001391 38 100%
1943 47 0.000016652 47 100%
1944 45 0.000016728 37 8 64%
1945 73 0.000027517 67 6 84%
1946 141 0.000044127 135 6 91%
1947 348 0.000096604 329 19 89%
1948 315 0.000091238 305 10 94%
1949 340 0.000097567 325 15 91%
1950 351 0.00010019 333 18 90%
1951 433 0.000117544 408 25 88%
1952 535 0.000140863 515 20 93%
1953 689 0.000178792 662 27 92%
1954 975 0.000244931 946 29 94%
1955 1027 0.000255786 1009 18 96%
1956 1257 0.000304872 1225 32 95%
1957 1209 0.00028771 1187 22 96%
1958 1204 0.00029125 1187 17 97%
1959 1163 0.000279702 1131 32 94%
1960 1253 0.00030165 1226 27 96%
1961 1577 0.000380706 1535 42 95%
1962 1701 0.000421522 1660 41 95%
1963 1722 0.000435046 1695 27 97%
1964 1907 0.000490533 1882 25 97%
1965 1421 0.000391951 1393 28 96%
1966 1439 0.000414023 1418 21 97%
1967 1207 0.000355534 1189 18 97%
1968 1429 0.00042298 1415 14 98%
1969 1697 0.0004883 1687 10 99%
1970 1516 0.000420351 1497 19 97%
1971 1444 0.000420702 1417 27 96%
1972 1492 0.000474707 1472 20 97%
1973 1493 0.000494881 1475 18 98%
1974 1618 0.000532237 1596 22 97%
1975 1530 0.000506724 1510 20 97%
1976 1459 0.000480836 1429 30 96%
1977 1534 0.000482922 1511 23 97%
1978 1400 0.000441102 1378 22 97%
1979 1430 0.000429817 1399 31 96%
1980 1532 0.000444766 1501 31 96%
1981 1390 0.000401807 1367 23 97%
1982 1329 0.000378852 1314 15 98%
1983 1296 0.000374205 1270 26 96%
1984 1119 0.000320745 1097 22 96%
1985 1029 0.000288307 1010 19 96%
1986 1285 0.000361252 1262 23 96%
1987 1070 0.000296759 1050 20 96%
1988 1007 0.000272527 984 23 95%
1989 932 0.000242428 912 20 96%
1990 905 0.00022897 886 19 96%
1991 807 0.000207175 792 15 96%
1992 769 0.000200194 750 19 95%
1993 693 0.000183806 677 16 95%
1994 577 0.000155205 566 11 96%
1995 514 0.000140355 502 12 95%
1996 525 0.000143946 516 9 97%
1997 508 0.000140109 498 10 96%
1998 535 0.000145451 526 9 97%
1999 396 0.000107205 396 100%
2000 358 0.000094711 350 8 96%
2001 300 0.000080141 294 6 96%
2002 282 0.000075436 282 100%
2003 263 0.000069168 263 100%
2004 249 0.000065167 249 100%
2005 202 0.000052538 202 100%
2006 189 0.000047773 184 5 95%
2007 191 0.000047778 191 100%
2008 162 0.000041214 162 100%
2009 181 0.00004738 176 5 94%
2010 153 0.000041399 153 100%
2011 164 0.000044836 164 100%
2012 180 0.000049216 180 100%
2013 202 0.000055408 202 100%
2014 249 0.000067182 242 7 94%
2015 257 0.000069442 252 5 96%
2016 246 0.000067054 246 100%
2017 243 0.000067949 235 8 93%
2018 266 0.000075656 255 11 92%
2019 233 0.000067129 233 100%
2020 200 0.00005987 191 9 91%
2021 218 0.000064346 210 8 93%
2022 203 0.000060004 195 8 92%
2023 186 0.000056173 178 8 91%
2024 185 0.000055581 178 7 92%

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