Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Robbin is a form of Robin. Robin comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1929. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Robbin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10,384
- 1,794 boys · 8,590 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 713 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 59% boys.
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 650 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,301 as a first name in 2020; 485 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Robbin’s family of names
Robbin has a related form in Robin. In German usage, Robbin as a surname has a related form in Ruben.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Robbin
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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