girls:
20.1k births since 1880
#1029 (82nd percentile)
boys:
4.8M births since 1880
#3 (100th percentile)
overall:
4.9M births since 1880
#3 (100th percentile)
The name Robert is the #3 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,862,085 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 100.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 100.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3 (100.0% percentile) for all time with 4,841,968 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,029 (82.0% percentile) for all time with 20,117 births since 1880.
Robert has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Robert has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Robert reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 100.0% percentile (ranked #1) with 52,009 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 56,572 births per million (ranked 100.0% percentile). Despite a low point around 1963, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Robert ranks #87 for boys (90.5% percentile) with 2,079 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Robert reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 50.1% percentile (ranked #296) with 381 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 381 births per million (ranked 50.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Robert ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Robert".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Robert. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Robert is pronounced as RAH-bert, which has 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like R AA1 B ER0 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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