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How popular is the name Robin?
Births per year, rank history and how many Robins are alive today.
Robin (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 109th in 2025 with 485 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1964, when around 1,300 babies were given the name, the 69th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 366 in 2009 before climbing back to the 109th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 56,000 babies have been named Robin in England and Wales since 1934. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Robin you are most likely to meet is around 62 years old. Half of all Robins born in England and Wales are between 44 and 70, and there are at least 48,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 15% chance that at least one of them will be called Robin.
How many babies are named Robin each year?
Where does Robin rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Robin most popular?
Robin peaked in 1964, when around 1,300 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Robin?
At least 48,000 people named Robin born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Robin?
Most living Robins are between 44 and 70; the most common age is about 62.
Is Robin becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.