Given name & surname
Roberts
Roberts is a given name from Anglo-Norman. It is used in English and Latvian.
Original FrenchRobert
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Roberts through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 422
- 422 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 14 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 6 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 916 as a first name in 2020; 362,049 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.
Roberts’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Roberts has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Robert. In Latvian usage, Roberts has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Roberto. In Latvian usage, Roberts has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 羅伯特.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Roberts has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Frenchwhere Roberts comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Roberts
- Roberts BlossomAmerican actor and poet (1924–2011)
- Roberts UldriķisLatvian association football playerborn 1998
- Roberts ZīleLatvian economist and politicianborn 1958
- Roberts PlūmeLatvian lugerborn 2000
- Roberts KrūzbergsLatvian short-track speed skaterborn 2001
- Roberts BukartsLatvian ice hockey playerborn 1990
- Roberts ĶīlisLatvian politician and social anthropologist (1968–2022)
- Roberts SavaļnieksLatvian footballerborn 1993
- Roberts RodeLatvian alpine skierborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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