as a First Name
Originally a pet form of Robert, from the short form Rob + the diminutive suffix -in (of Old French origin), but now nearly always used as an independent name. In recent years it has been increasingly used as a girl's name, partly under the influence of the vocabulary word denoting the bird.
| 126th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 425,139
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Robin per capita
- 1961
- marked the height of its popularity
88%
12%
23%
55+
55+
68%
30-54
30-54
7%
13-29
13-29
2%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
