Entry № 8765 · English origin

Roberta Roberta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ roh-BER-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Bright fame (Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly")"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "bright fame (roberta flack, "killing me softly")".

Roberta is the feminine of Robert — from the Old Germanic hrod ("fame") + beraht ("bright") — "bright fame." A top-100 US baby name from 1924 to 1947, peaking at #44 in 1936. 1.

Bright fame (Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly") — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Roberta
Transliteration
Roberta
Pronunciation
/ roʊˈbɜːr.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Roberta stands.

Roberta does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Robertas before her.

Real people
Roberta Flack
American Grammy singer.
1937 – 2025
Roberta Bondar
First Canadian woman in space.
born 1945
Roberta Vinci
Italian tennis player.
born 1983
Roberta Williams
American video-game designer.
born 1953
In fiction
Roberta
RKO's Roberta.
1935

Names connected to Roberta.

The number behind Roberta.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Roberta reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.