Robin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the male personal name Robin, a pet-form of Robert; (ii) different form of Rabin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹɑbɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Robin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 35th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 331(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 642
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 727
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Robin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #245 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 605 (measured from records)
- 1 in 331 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Robyn in AU Australia, IE Ireland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) from the male personal name Robin, a pet-form of Robert; (ii) different form of Rabin
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Robin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 885 | — | Robin | 72 |
| US United States | #107 | 284,371 | 1 in 1.2K | 246K | Robin | 605 |
| GB United Kingdom | #117 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 727 | 617 | Robin | 354 |
| DE Germany | #287 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Robin | 251 |
| CA Canada | #111 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 856 | 14 | Robin | 280 |
| AU Australia | #74 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 757 | 96 | Robyn | 274 |
| SE Sweden | #647 | 30,826 | 1 in 331 | 31K | Robin | 156 |
| NZ New Zealand | #60 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 642 | 11 | Robin | 156 |
| IE Ireland | #299 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 754 | 194 | Robyn | 103 |
| NL Netherlands | #35 | 2,333as Robbin | 1 in 7.4K | 23K | Robin | 181 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Robin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Originally a pet form; now sometimes used as a name.
as a nameIrish first names
,2 Originally a pet form of pRobert, from the short form Rob + the diminutive suffix -in (of Old French origin), but now nearly always used as an independent RODERICK 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. Variant: Robyn (9).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, sheep, calf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Le mot robin peut désigner un « homme de robe » de façon assez péjorative. Il s’agit ici d’un autre sens, celui d’« homme de peu », quasiment sorti de l’usage. Il dérive de Robert qui, dans l’ancienne littérature, était souvent le nom d’un paysan prétentieux.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robin Warrenb. 1937AUAustralian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate (1937–2024)
- Robin Williamsb. 1951USAmerican actor and comedian (1951–2014)
- Paul Krugmanb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican economist (born 1953)
- Robin Wrightb. 1966USAmerican actress
- Robin Tunneyb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Banksyb. 1973GBnot in their usual nameEnglish graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
- Robin Thickeb. 1977USAmerican singer, songwriter, and record producer (born 1977)
- Robin van Persieb. 1983NLDutch association football player and manager
- Robin Schulzb. 1987DEGerman house music producer (born 1987)
- Robin Gosensb. 1994DEGerman footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 139 sources across 65 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 246K | #185 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38K | #185 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31K | #141 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 23K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 400 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 382 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 198 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 44 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 14 | #329 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 10 | #431 |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Robin a male or female name?
- Robin is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Robin mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the male personal name Robin, a pet-form of Robert; (ii) different form of Rabin Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Robin?
- In the etymology graph, Robert, Roberto and Bob are forms of the same name in other languages; Bobby and Bobbie are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Robin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Robin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled robin.
- Where is Robin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Robin is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 331 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Robin?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑbɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Robin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 284,371 people named Robin in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Robin compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Robin is the 35th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/robinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Robin” — the 35th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.