Rob

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rob is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In New Zealand it is the 98th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: To steal from, especially using force or violence.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 1.2K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.3K
  • CACanada1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈44K ●

across 6 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
495 ●

764K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.3K ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

RobLatin · English●931K records
ᲠობGeorgian · Georgian●7 records
ՌոբArmenian · Armenian●1 records
РобCyrillic · Tajik●0 records
로프Hangul · Korean●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

To steal from, especially using force or violence.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Rob is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#33887,98573K rec.—4Rob259
AU Australia#34354,39151K rec.—1Rob231
CA Canada#27746,87941K rec.—1Rob221
US United States#53629,961529K rec.1 in 11K30KRob495
NL Netherlands#18713,68628K rec.1 in 1.3K14KRob172
NZ New Zealand#987,0054K rec.——Rob120
DE Germany—6,6826.8K rec.—1Rob127
RU Russia—3,1033K rec.——Rob48
IE Ireland#3222,0411.8K rec.——Rob92
IT Italy—1,9962.1K rec.——Rob80
BE Belgium—1,4932.2K rec.—71Rob97
JP Japan—614533 rec.——Rob52

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English931K75%
  • 88K7%
  • Dutch44K4%
  • Spanish33K3%
  • Western Frisian26K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English930,56775%
88,2987%
Dutch44,0654%
Spanish33,2963%
Western Frisian26,1822%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rob is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name15K records spelled Rob2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Rob'

  • Polish given name10K records spelled Rob23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Poland, Netherlands

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Роб, Rób, Řŏb

  • Bangla given name3.5K records spelled Rob9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bangladesh, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bangla, Odia

    Also written রব, Rabo, রুবু, রবু, র্ব

  • Thai given name2.0K records spelled Rob4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written โหรบ, โห้รบ

66 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rob is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Slavic stem from robiti 'work' or rob 'servant'; cf. robot

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, männl. Vom., englische und nieder­ ländische Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Short form of jRobert.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Scottish Gaelic, a diminutive of the male given name Raibeart, equivalent to English Rob

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, seal, any member of the family Phocidae

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600190019502000555 · 1963

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Rob in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18845
18856
18906
18956
191214
19137
191411
19158
191613
191711
191818
191912
192017
192115
192220
192317
192414
192522
192611
192715
192815
192919
193017
193114
193217
193310
193413
193514
193611
193713
193813
193913
194013
194117
194210
194321
194425
194531
194630
194735
194848
194939
195045
195141
195258
195383
1954113
1955129
1956171
1957252
1958316
1959342
1960353
1961442
1962487
1963555
1964546
1965437
1966327
1967275
1968334
1969403
1970334
1971275
1972201
1973127
1974116
1975104
197670
197780
197878
197956
198059
198138
198253
198338
198442
198530
198641
198742
198857
198944
199036
199135
199239
199325
199420
199522
199619
199714
199818
199918
200015
200114
200211
200312
200414
200513
200717
200810
200912
201014
201113
20128
20137
201414
20165
201710
20186
20198
20205
20219
20228
202311
20246
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 116 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Rob Reiner, b. 1947Rob Rensenbrink, b. 1947Rob Paulsen, b. 1956Rob Marshall, b. 1960Rob Lowe, b. 1964Rob Zombie, b. 1965Rob Liefeld, b. 1967Rob Riggle, b. 1970Rob Morgan, b. 1973Rob Jetten, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Rob
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202030K#1,249
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—14K#169
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—12K#315
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020701#34,739
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010537#40,672
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000360#53,782
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020183#1,249
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021176#4,730
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022160—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007160#12,810
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—155#29,189
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—154#29,753

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 278 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rob?
We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Rob (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Rob have the most bearers?
Rob is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled rob.
How common is Rob compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Rob is the 338th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Rob a male or female name?
Rob is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Rob mean?
Recorded meaning: To steal from, especially using force or violence.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rob” — the 338th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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