Given name & surname
Rober
Rober is a masculine given name. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Rober is a diminutive of Roberto.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rober through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 414
- 414 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,953 as a first name in 2020; 409 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.
Rober’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Rober is a diminutive of Roberto.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Rober
- Rober EryolTurkish association football player (1930–2000)
- Rober CorreaSpanish footballerborn 1992
- RoberSpanish association football playerborn 2001
- Rober HaddeciyanArmenian writer, playwright, editor-in-chief of Marmara1926–2025
- Rober BodegasSpanish actorborn 1982
- Rober RacineCanadian essayist, writer, and composer (born 1956)
- Rober SierraSpanish footballer (born 1996)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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