Meaning not yet researched.
Robby: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #393 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #393 in 1964; #4,675 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Robby in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,675 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #393.
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Robby: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #393 in 1964 · most boys in one year: 412 (1964).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Robby, making it the 4,675th most common boys’ name of the year, down 139 places from #4,536 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 23 boys named Robby in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #393, reached in 1964. That year also had the most boys given the name: 412. For comparison, it was #4,154 in 2015 and #1,162 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Robby in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 6 babies. In all, 10,780 US babies have been given the name, 2.0% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 3,381 babies named Robby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 231 US boys were named Robby; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Robert (4,869,849 babies since 1880), Robbie (43,939 babies since 1880), Robb (3,194 babies since 1880) and Ruby (379,684 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Robiya are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Robiya (73).
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 Robby in the open dataset we use.
Robby is listed as a nickname for Robert.
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 | — | — | 22 | #4,675 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,536 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,314 |
| 2022 | — | — | 23 | #4,547 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,748 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,246 |
| 2019 | — | — | 25 | #4,207 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,462 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,477 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,869 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,154 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,446 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,393 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,287 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,190 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,862 |
| 2009 | — | — | 34 | #3,318 |
| 2008 | — | — | 38 | #3,091 |
| 2007 | — | — | 34 | #3,293 |
| 2006 | — | — | 39 | #2,921 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,456 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,203 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,769 |
| 2002 | — | — | 44 | #2,361 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,419 |
| 2000 | — | — | 50 | #2,042 |
| 1999 | — | — | 56 | #1,798 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,491 |
| 1997 | — | — | 46 | #1,990 |
| 1996 | — | — | 61 | #1,610 |
| 1995 | — | — | 53 | #1,701 |
| 1994 | — | — | 72 | #1,378 |
| 1993 | — | — | 79 | #1,286 |
| 1992 | — | — | 104 | #1,083 |
| 1991 | — | — | 107 | #1,045 |
| 1990 | — | — | 111 | #1,005 |
| 1989 | — | — | 142 | #844 |
| 1988 | — | — | 120 | #868 |
| 1987 | — | — | 128 | #826 |
| 1986 | — | — | 149 | #746 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,045 | 158 | #701 |
| 1984 | — | — | 146 | #721 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,589 | 157 | #685 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,163 | 190 | #631 |
| 1981 | — | — | 212 | #585 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,045 | 240 | #552 |
| 1979 | — | — | 232 | #565 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,034 | 211 | #580 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,854 | 248 | #535 |
| 1976 | — | — | 164 | #645 |
| 1975 | — | — | 199 | #573 |
| 1974 | — | — | 202 | #566 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,428 | 231 | #517 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,415 | 318 | #445 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,288 | 354 | #433 |
| 1970 | — | — | 312 | #459 |
| 1969 | — | — | 374 | #412 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,912 | 346 | #414 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,335 | 254 | #473 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,173 | 307 | #436 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,191 | 351 | #418 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,048 | 412 | #393 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,762 | 388 | #409 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,727 | 360 | #421 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,406 | 314 | #454 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,589 | 207 | #547 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,983 | 208 | #543 |
| 1958 | — | — | 204 | #541 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,471 | 150 | #626 |
| 1956 | — | — | 149 | #625 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,312 | 102 | #725 |
| 1954 | — | — | 98 | #730 |
| 1953 | — | — | 80 | #804 |
| 1952 | — | — | 65 | #877 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,735 | 35 | #1,257 |
| 1950 | — | — | 39 | #1,162 |
| 1949 | — | — | 52 | #964 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,868 | 31 | #1,318 |
| 1947 | — | — | 59 | #915 |
| 1946 | — | — | 41 | #1,090 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,111 | 12 | #2,109 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,628 | 18 | #1,671 |
| 1943 | — | — | 17 | #1,818 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,668 | 18 | #1,721 |
| 1941 | — | — | 21 | #1,520 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,789 | 22 | #1,462 |
| 1939 | — | — | 28 | #1,268 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,883 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,801 | 10 | #2,448 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,153 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,641 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,530 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,743 | 10 | #2,511 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,604 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,838 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,531 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,932 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,028 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,120 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,492 | — | — |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,104 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,259 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,577 | 5 | #4,775 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,227 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,994 | — | — |
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).