boys:
2.9k births since 1900
#2352 (49th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1900
#5056 (35th percentile)
The name Robinson is the #5,056 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,857 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 34.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,352 (48.7% percentile) for all time with 2,857 births since 1900.
Robinson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (first recorded for boys in 1900). Birth data for Robinson is available in 113 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Robinson reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 7.0% percentile (ranked #704) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 43 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Robinson ranks #875 for boys (4.0% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 51.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Robinson".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Robinson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.9% confident that Robinson is pronounced as RAH-bihn-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-buhn-suhn, at 37.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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