Meaning not yet researched.
Robinson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,144 in 1900.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,144 in 1900; #3,641 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Robinson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,641 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1900, at #1,144.
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Robinson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,144 in 1900 · most boys in one year: 64 (2014).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Robinson, making it the 3,641st most common boys’ name of the year, down 52 places from #3,589 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 32 boys named Robinson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,144, reached in 1900. The most boys given the name in a single year was 64, in 2014. For comparison, it was #2,404 in 2015 and #2,183 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Robinson in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 7 babies. In all, 2,921 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 520 babies named Robinson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 403 US boys were named Robinson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Robenson 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Robenson (10).
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 Robinson 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 | — | — | 31 | #3,641 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,589 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,992 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,676 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,809 |
| 2020 | — | — | 33 | #3,401 |
| 2019 | — | — | 48 | #2,683 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,786 |
| 2017 | — | — | 43 | #2,832 |
| 2016 | — | — | 54 | #2,406 |
| 2015 | — | — | 54 | #2,404 |
| 2014 | — | — | 64 | #2,152 |
| 2013 | — | — | 62 | #2,160 |
| 2012 | — | — | 58 | #2,261 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,584 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,719 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,459 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,573 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,073 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,277 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,603 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,271 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,911 |
| 2002 | — | — | 40 | #2,498 |
| 2001 | — | — | 44 | #2,300 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,851 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,847 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,265 |
| 1997 | — | — | 42 | #2,122 |
| 1996 | — | — | 40 | #2,137 |
| 1995 | — | — | 38 | #2,169 |
| 1994 | — | — | 35 | #2,294 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,819 |
| 1992 | — | — | 53 | #1,653 |
| 1991 | — | — | 48 | #1,717 |
| 1990 | — | — | 52 | #1,610 |
| 1989 | — | — | 54 | #1,533 |
| 1988 | — | — | 44 | #1,639 |
| 1987 | — | — | 37 | #1,789 |
| 1986 | — | — | 45 | #1,506 |
| 1985 | — | — | 38 | #1,663 |
| 1984 | — | — | 33 | #1,757 |
| 1983 | — | — | 39 | #1,556 |
| 1982 | — | — | 33 | #1,763 |
| 1981 | — | — | 36 | #1,656 |
| 1980 | — | — | 28 | #1,993 |
| 1979 | — | — | 21 | #2,358 |
| 1978 | — | — | 34 | #1,645 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,438 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,224 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,621 |
| 1974 | — | — | 16 | #2,536 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,971 |
| 1972 | — | — | 23 | #1,918 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,975 |
| 1970 | — | — | 24 | #1,838 |
| 1969 | — | — | 24 | #1,714 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #2,017 |
| 1967 | — | — | 19 | #1,842 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,115 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #2,061 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,785 |
| 1963 | — | — | 17 | #2,031 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,582 |
| 1961 | — | — | 20 | #1,867 |
| 1960 | — | — | 18 | #1,962 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,392 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,479 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,498 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,152 |
| 1955 | — | — | 19 | #1,840 |
| 1954 | — | — | 16 | #2,030 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,166 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,481 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,229 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,183 |
| 1949 | — | — | 15 | #2,007 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,260 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,640 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,661 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,110 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,440 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,498 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,616 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,080 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,781 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #3,114 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,920 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #3,097 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,901 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,369 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,226 |
| 1932 | — | — | 16 | #1,906 |
| 1931 | — | — | 13 | #2,192 |
| 1930 | — | — | 17 | #1,879 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,198 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #2,032 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,871 |
| 1926 | — | — | 13 | #2,407 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,673 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,600 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,752 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,606 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,768 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,578 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,832 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,144 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,397 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,511 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #3,020 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,671 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,457 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,229 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,795 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,144 |
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).