Roberts

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Roberts is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 20th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Robert, with -s patronymic ending; hereditary surname form.

rarermore common
  • BSBahamas1 in 60◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 594
  • AUAustralia1 in 622

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

≈387K ●

across 11 countries

#282 ●

of 21M surnames

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
548 ●

4.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 126 ◐

St. Vincent & Grenadines

Spellings & scripts●

RobertsLatin · English●4.5M records
로버츠Hangul · Korean●1 records
ՌոբերթսArmenian · Armenian●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●

from Robert, with -s patronymic ending; hereditary surname form.

Sources 1

  • Welsh Surnames

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Roberts is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#20391,759308K rec.—3Roberts287
US United States#37376,7743.3M rec.1 in 883377KRoberts548
AU Australia#21135,501125K rec.——Roberts265
CA Canada#3179,42977K rec.——Roberts207
IT Italy#4619,63420K rec.——Roberts74
DE Germany#65013,90814K rec.——Roberts132
NZ New Zealand#1511,7629.8K rec.——Roberts137
BS Bahamas#611,2472K rec.——Roberts70
ZA South Africa#21810,90310K rec.——Roberts122
RU Russia—9,87810K rec.——Roberts46
SG Singapore#558,6358.9K rec.——Roberts64
EG Egypt#4476,4346.5K rec.——Roberts21

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

Languages●

  • English4.5M83%
  • 188K3%
  • Spanish165K3%
  • Welsh148K3%
  • German38K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English4,507,63083%
188,3313%
Spanish164,9963%
Welsh148,0793%
German37,5341%

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◐

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

  • Spanish surname224K records spelled Roberts8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rôbêrts, Röbërts, Robert'S

  • a separate surname206K records spelled Roberts3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Robert-S

  • French surname40K records spelled Roberts4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Rôberts, Robert'S

  • Hindi surname25K records spelled Roberts9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Robarts, রবার্টস, রবারটস

  • Polish surname20K records spelled Roberts12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Робертс, Робъртс

  • Latvian surname15K records spelled Roberts2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Robērts

87 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●

Roberts 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 English, An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic from the given name Robert.

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

  • In English, son of Robert

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In French, Forme patronymique ou variante de Robert.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Variante de Robert.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In Irish, This name is found in all the provinces but is rare in Connacht. When of Scottish origin it is frequently met in Ulster with the prefix Mac. Bibl

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

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●

051015192019401960198014 · 1922

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Roberts in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1913–1999
Yearrecords
19139
19149
19158
19169
19176
191811
191911
192010
19218
192214
192312
192413
192512
19268
19279
19286
19296
193012
19328
19349
19355
19365
19377
19409
19416
194212
19448
19459
19466
19477
19495
19509
195111
19535
195410
19575
19588
19609
19628
196513
19678
19686
19696
19717
19747
19766
19776
19825
19908
19915
19955
19996

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 52 years between 1913–1999. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Margaret Thatcher, b. 1925Doris Roberts, b. 1925Judith Roberts, b. 1935Tony Roberts, b. 1939Tanya Roberts, b. 1949John Roberts, b. 1955Eric Roberts, b. 1956Julia Roberts, b. 1967Dallas Roberts, b. 1970Emma Roberts, b. 1991

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 80 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Roberts
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010377K#50
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000366K#45
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020362K#51
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—9.9K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—9.9K#33
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520252.8K#24
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.8K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#4,185
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#4,182
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)2025805#16
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020668#13,255
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 20252025630#19

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 290 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Roberts?
We estimate roughly 387 thousand people bear Roberts (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Roberts have the most bearers?
Roberts is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled roberts.
How common is Roberts compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Roberts is the 20th most common surname of 1,169,970 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Roberts mean?
Recorded meaning: from Robert, with -s patronymic ending; hereditary surname form.
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About this data

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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, “Roberts” — the 20th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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