Roby

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Roby is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 841st, in 1901.

Rank in 2024: —fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024: 0not in the data
Peak year: 196450 births
Best rank: #841in 1901
Since 1884: 2,592people given the name

Babies named Roby, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

2,474 boys have been named Roby in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 50 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 50 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1960s alone account for 14%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 118 girls have also been given it, 4.6% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Roby
1880s	18
1890s	40
1900s	40
1910s	222
1920s	267
1930s	242
1940s	289
1950s	260
1960s	358
1970s	245
1980s	143
1990s	137
2000s	122
2010s	61
2020s	30

In 1964, its biggest year

Roby was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1964 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1964.

Names that rose and fell with Roby

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

Other spellings in the data

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.