Roberto

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Röbërtö in DO Dominican Republic.

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●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Roberto is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name1.6M records spelled Roberto35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Robertó, Róberto, Robérto, Roberto', Řôbêrtô

• a separate given name242K records spelled Roberto4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Italy, United Kingdom

  Also written Robert-O, Robérto, Roberṭo

• Catalan given name160K records spelled Roberto9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Italy

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Robertô, Robertó, Robêrtô, R̠̟̹̺̗̠̻͆̈̈́ͥö͖̥͙̹́̌̑͛͗͗ͮͨͫͅb͍̯̘̣̰̙̹̏̄̉̾̽ͮe̜̳̺͍̰̤̒̽̊̑̓̆r̗̗͂͂ͨ̏̃̀t̞̫̺̝̪͌́̉̒̚ȏ͚̣̜̩͎̻̄ͬ̉͂͊͗, Robèrto

• Indonesian given name20K records spelled Roberto4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Spain

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Röbërtö, Robërto

• Lao given name13K records spelled Roberto17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Italy

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written โรเบอร์โต, โรเบอร์โต้, โรแบร์โต้, โรแบร์โต, โรเบอโต้

• Polish given name8.9K records spelled Roberto2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Italy, Spain

  Also written Robertó

92 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●

Roberto 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 Italian, Di origine germanica: hrod 'gloria' + beraht 'splendido, illustre'.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Spanish, Germanic Hruotberht: hruot 'fama' + berht 'brillo' ('el que brilla por su fama').

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In Swedish, Roberto är en spansk, portugisisk och italiensk variant av → Robert.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Italian, forma italiana de Robertus

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In French, Forme italienne/espagnole de Robert.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Roberto Eduardo Violab. 1924ARmilitary officer, dictator and de facto president of Argentina
• Roberto Faenzab. 1943ITItalian film director and screenwriter (born 1943)
• Roberto Benignib. 1952ITItalian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director (born 1952)
• Roberto Baggiob. 1967ITItalian association football player (born 1967)
• Mauricio Pochettinob. 1972ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player and coach
• Roberto Martínezb. 1973ESSpanish association football coach
• Diego Godínb. 1986UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player (born 1986)
• Edinson Cavanib. 1987UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
• Roberto Firminob. 1991BRBrazilian association football player
• Kieffer Mooreb. 1992GBnot in their usual nameWelsh-English association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,443 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Roberto?

We estimate roughly 700 thousand people bear Roberto (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Roberto have the most bearers?

Roberto is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled roberto.

How common is Roberto compared with other names?

In Argentina, Roberto is the 44th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Roberto a male or female name?

Roberto 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 Roberto mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, feminine equivalent Roberta, equivalent to English Robert