Roby

Where Roby comes from

Roby hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #848 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1901
    Peak, #779
    8 babies named Roby — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1907
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1942
    Roby Young born
    Israeli footballer
  6. 1965
    Roby Lakatos born
    jazz violinist, composer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Roby Lakatos · jazz violinist, composer, born 1965
  • Roby Young · Israeli footballer, born 1942
  • Roby Zucchi · Italian water skier, born 1951
  • Roby Hentges · Luxembourgish cyclist, born 1940
  • Roby Järventie · Finnish ice hockey player, born 2002

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.