Robin

Where Robin comes from

* (masculine given name): From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert. * (feminine given name): From the bird, robin, or from Germanic.
— Wiktionary's entry for Robin
  • Romance
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1904
    First appearance
    #1,659 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1951
    Robin Williams born
    American actor and comedian
  4. 1962
    Peak, #25
    15,128 babies named Robin — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #46.
  6. 1983
    Robin van Persie born
    Dutch association football player and manager
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, also associated with the bird robin.
Namesakes
  • Robin Williams · American actor and comedian, 1951–2014
  • Robin van Persie · Dutch association football player and manager, born 1983
  • Robin Wright · American actress, born 1966
  • Robin Warren · Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate, 1937–2024
  • Robin Tunneyio · American actress, born 1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.