Entry № 8766 · English origin

Robin Robin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROB-in /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Bright fame (Robin Roberts; Robin Wright; Robin Quivers)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "bright fame (robin roberts; robin wright; robin quivers)".

Robin is from the diminutive of Robert — Old Germanic hrod (fame) + beraht (bright) — and also the name of the red-breasted bird that since the Middle Ages has symbolized renewal and joy.

Subject of Roberts's memoir Everybody's Got Something (2014).

Bright fame (Robin Roberts; Robin Wright; Robin Quivers) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Robin
Transliteration
Robin
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɒb.ɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Robin stands.

Robin 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.

Robins before her.

Real people
Robin Roberts
American ABC news anchor.
born 1960
Robin Wright
American actress and director.
born 1966
Robin Quivers
American radio host.
born 1952
In fiction
Princess Buttercup
The Princess Bride.
1987

Names connected to Robin.

The number behind Robin.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Robin reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.