Robbie
Feminine · “bright fame”
Robbie is given to both — 22,553 girls and 21,386 boys since 1880. See Robbie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Robbie for a daughter is Roberta shortened, and the Germanic behind it is bright fame — two ordinary words that made one of the best compounds in European naming.
How old is the name Robbie?
Robbie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Robbie alive today was born around 1947, making them about 78 years old. About 12,500 people named Robbie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Robbie most popular?
Robbie peaked in 1932, reaching #331 nationally. Today it ranks #3130, 2,799 places below that high. See the whole 1932 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Hrodebert to Robbie
The story of Robbie
Roberta was the standard nineteenth-century feminine of Robert, and English speech clipped it to Robbie and Bobbie. Mid-century American families registered the clippings outright for daughters, in the same movement that produced Bobbi, Jackie, Billie and Frankie. Robbie for girls peaked in American records around 1958.
Meaning
bright fame
Through Roberta and Robert, from the Germanic hrod, 'fame', and beraht, 'bright'. Both elements are transparent and the compound is undisputed. The -ie ending is an English diminutive rather than part of the original name.
How the name formed
- Hrodebert
- Roberta
- Robbie
Related forms: Robbi · Roberta · Roberta
Pronouncing Robbie
ROB-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said identically whichever sex carries it.
Nicknames for Robbie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1956445 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #331reached in 1932
- Change vs 2022
- +64.5%51 in 2025, from 31
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Robbie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Robbi in English — spelling variant
- Roberta in English — related form
- Roberta in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Washington.
Robbies among us
people named Robbie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 31,515 born in 2025 was named Robbie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Vada test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Robbie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vada climbed just as high around 1901, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vada's path sketches the road Robbie is walking now.
Robbie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Robbie is headed
Robbie looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 24% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Robbie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Robbie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent, undisputed and unusually good.
- Roberta is available as a full formal version.
- It belongs to a documented American practice of unisex short forms.
- It reads as masculine to most English speakers.
- As a diminutive on the certificate it carries an informal register into adult life.
- It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Robbies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,500 people named Robbie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Robbie in 2025?
- Robbie ranks #3130 among US girl names in 2025, with 51 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Robbie?
- About 1 in every 31,515 US girls born in 2025 was named Robbie — 51 in all.
- Will my child share the name Robbie with classmates?
- Robbie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Robbie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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