girls:
118 births since 1904
#5598 (2nd percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1884
#2541 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1884
#5261 (32nd percentile)
The name Roby is the #5,261 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,592 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 32.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,541 (44.6% percentile) for all time with 2,474 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,598 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 118 births since 1904.
Roby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1904 for girls). Birth data for Roby is available in 126 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (126 years for boys and 19 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 Roby has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Roby reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #492) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 69 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Roby ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 7.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Roby reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #555) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roby".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Roby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.5% confident that Roby is pronounced as ROH-bee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-bee, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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