Meaning not yet researched.
Robb: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #502 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #502 in 1969; #13,491 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Robb in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,491 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #502.
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Robb: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #502 in 1969 · most boys in one year: 246 (1970).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Robb, making it the 13,491st most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #502, reached in 1969. The most boys given the name in a single year was 246, in 1970. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,735 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Robb in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 3,194 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,117 babies named Robb.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10 US boys were named Robb; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 5. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Robbie (43,939 babies since 1880), Robby (10,780 babies since 1880), Robbin (10,384 babies since 1880) and Rob (8,775 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Robb in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #13,491 |
| 2020 | — | — | 5 | #13,651 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #13,666 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,730 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #8,285 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,941 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,583 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,270 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #9,030 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,800 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,055 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,841 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,643 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #4,064 |
| 1991 | — | — | 22 | #2,968 |
| 1990 | — | — | 32 | #2,248 |
| 1989 | — | — | 44 | #1,758 |
| 1988 | — | — | 26 | #2,348 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,923 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,910 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,719 |
| 1984 | — | — | 35 | #1,683 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,946 |
| 1982 | — | — | 42 | #1,510 |
| 1981 | — | — | 43 | #1,473 |
| 1980 | — | — | 40 | #1,539 |
| 1979 | — | — | 43 | #1,430 |
| 1978 | — | — | 50 | #1,283 |
| 1977 | — | — | 75 | #996 |
| 1976 | — | — | 66 | #1,026 |
| 1975 | — | — | 84 | #903 |
| 1974 | — | — | 82 | #897 |
| 1973 | — | — | 92 | #832 |
| 1972 | — | — | 156 | #633 |
| 1971 | — | — | 149 | #680 |
| 1970 | — | — | 246 | #513 |
| 1969 | — | — | 237 | #502 |
| 1968 | — | — | 214 | #519 |
| 1967 | — | — | 90 | #773 |
| 1966 | — | — | 90 | #771 |
| 1965 | — | — | 94 | #763 |
| 1964 | — | — | 102 | #758 |
| 1963 | — | — | 87 | #814 |
| 1962 | — | — | 89 | #807 |
| 1961 | — | — | 55 | #1,056 |
| 1960 | — | — | 59 | #1,006 |
| 1959 | — | — | 46 | #1,152 |
| 1958 | — | — | 57 | #1,012 |
| 1957 | — | — | 64 | #955 |
| 1956 | — | — | 52 | #1,053 |
| 1955 | — | — | 43 | #1,151 |
| 1954 | — | — | 30 | #1,402 |
| 1953 | — | — | 35 | #1,274 |
| 1952 | — | — | 29 | #1,427 |
| 1951 | — | — | 21 | #1,674 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,735 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,762 |
| 1948 | — | — | 18 | #1,809 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,773 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,249 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,690 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #3,062 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,947 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,432 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,841 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,420 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,296 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,054 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,624 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,840 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,463 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).