Meaning and history
Robin is a medieval English diminutive of Robert that is now usually treated as an independent name. It is associated with the legendary English folk hero Robin Hood, who was said to rob the rich and give to the poor, and with Christopher Robin, the character in A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books, based on his son Christopher Robin Milne (1920–1996). Other notable bearers include the American actor and comedian Robin Williams (1951–2014). In modern use, the name is also given to females and may sometimes refer to the red-breasted bird.
20062006: 226 births, rank #1,107
2007: 214 births, rank #1,188
2008: 188 births, rank #1,317
2009: 178 births, rank #1,342
2010: 158 births, rank #1,438
20112011: 146 births, rank #1,515
2012: 175 births, rank #1,340
2013: 190 births, rank #1,254
2014: 226 births, rank #1,121
2015: 260 births, rank #1,026
20162016: 239 births, rank #1,086
2017: 256 births, rank #1,014
2018: 271 births, rank #975
2019: 262 births, rank #984
2020: 293 births, rank #900
20212021: 291 births, rank #918
2022: 324 births, rank #859
2023: 358 births, rank #787
2024: 352 births, rank #798
20252025: 400 births, rank #704
Robin rose from #800 to #704 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1961, with 15,653 births.