girls:
834 births since 1917
#4882 (15th percentile)
boys:
111.6k births since 1897
#283 (94th percentile)
overall:
112.4k births since 1897
#624 (92nd percentile)
The name Roberto is the #624 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 112,405 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 91.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #283 (93.8% percentile) for all time with 111,571 births since 1897. For girls, it ranks #4,882 (14.6% percentile) for all time with 834 births since 1917.
Roberto first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (1897 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Roberto is available in 122 out of the 127 years between 1897 and 2023 (122 years for boys and 79 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Roberto has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Roberto reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 80.9% percentile (ranked #148) with 974 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 1,035 births per million (ranked 78.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1995, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Roberto ranks #464 for boys (49.1% percentile) with 305 births per million, which is 29.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Roberto reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #789) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roberto".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Roberto. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.0% confident that Roberto is pronounced as roh-BER-toh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is roh-BAIR-toh, at 28.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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