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Robert

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Robert is ranked 90th among boys in 2024 (3,785 births). It was the number one boy’s name in 1924–1939, 1953.

Rank in 2024
#90down 1 from 2023
Births in 2024
3,7850.22% of boys
Peak year
194791,654 births
Best rank
#1first in 1924
Since 1880
4,866,007people given the name
Babies named Robert, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

4,845,891 boys have been named Robert in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 91,654 births — 5.0% of all boys recorded that year.

The name has all but left use: 3,785 births in 2024, against 91,654 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 17%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 145 of them in the top 100 and 108 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 20,116 girls have also been given it, 0.41% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

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By decade

Decadeboys named Robert
1880s24,074
1890s26,147
1900s35,849
1910s239,185
1920s576,375
1930s590,799
1940s758,115
1950s830,391
1960s650,769
1970s397,249
1980s321,672
1990s205,454
2000s106,658
2010s62,637
2020s20,517

In 1947, its biggest year

Robert was the 2nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.

Names that rose and fell with Robert

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.