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Robert Names for Boys

There are 19 Robert names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Robert names 1 to 19. David was the most popular among these names in 2008. The name is primarily used in Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian, Slavic, and Spanish, and it was followed in popularity by the English, French, German, Scandinavian, and Scottish Robert, the English, Irish, and Scottish Carson, the English Blake, the Breton, English, German, and Scottish Alan, the English Darren, the English and Scottish Bruce, the English, Dutch, French, German, and Scottish Roy, the English and Spanish Bobby, the English and Chinese Lee, and the English and German name, Roderick. The unusual Robert names are Bob (English), Clive (English), Dudley (English), Emmet (English), Giles (Dutch, English, and German), Hopkin (English and Welsh), Leslie (English and German), and Lovell (English).

Robert names are popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1947, 10.273% of baby boys were given Robert names. There were 14 Robert names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Robert names have since experienced a decline in frequency, but are nonetheless used on a heavy scale now. In 2008, 11 Robert names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of only 1.899%. Within all Robert names, the Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian, Slavic, and Spanish David was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #14 and a usage of 0.7467%.

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NAME MATCH:

Robert Popularity Trend of Robert
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 49 49 bright famous one; famously famous ...The boy name Robert is pronounced as RAABerT ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Alan Popularity Trend of Alan
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 135 135 little rock; harmony, ... well as Alan Breck in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel ...

Blake Popularity Trend of Blake
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 90 90 dark; fair ... to the English admiral Robert Blake (1599-1657) or ...

Bob Popularity Trend of Bob
from 1900 to 2008. bright famous one; famously famous ... used as a diminutive of Robert among 18th-century ...

Bobby Popularity Trend of Bobby
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 525 525 bright famous one; famously famous ... as a diminutive of Robert in the early 18th ...

Bruce Popularity Trend of Bruce
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 476 476 especially known from Robert the Bruce (1274-1329), ...

Carson Popularity Trend of Carson
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 89 89 rock, coastal rocks; ... borne by a certain Robert de Carsan (1276) of ...

Clive Popularity Trend of Clive
from 1900 to 2008. cliff, riverbank, slope ... honor of Major-General Robert Clive (1725-1774), ...

Darren Popularity Trend of Darren
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 385 385 wealthy; small and great ... Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto, 1936-1973) ...

David Popularity Trend of David
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 14 14 beloved, favorite, darling, friend ... David Balfour in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel ...

Dudley Popularity Trend of Dudley
from 1900 to 2008. Dudda's clearing ...Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), was the ...

Emmet Popularity Trend of Emmet
from 1900 to 2008. whole, immense, universal ... the Irish in honor of Robert Emmet (1778-1803), an ...

Giles Popularity Trend of Giles
from 1900 to 2008. young goat, goat skin ... Giles the farm boy from Robert Bloomfield's poem The ...

Hopkin son of Hob ... medieval diminutive of Robert ...

Lee Popularity Trend of Lee
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 673 673 meadow; from the deer ... the Confederate general Robert E ...

Leslie Popularity Trend of Leslie
from 1900 to 2008. garden of hollies ... in the 18th century Robert Burns poem Bonnie ...

Lovell Popularity Trend of Lovell
from 1900 to 2008. little wolf, wolf cub ... family, as borne by Robert Lowell (1917-1977), one ...

Roderick Popularity Trend of Roderick
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 936 936 famously powerful ... attention again through Robert Southey's poem, ...

Roy Popularity Trend of Roy
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 497 497 ruddy, red-haired; king; the king; hound of the plain ... folk hero and outlaw Robert Roy MacGregor ...


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