Rob

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rob: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rob: Recorded since 1996, it reached #601 in 2016, and it was last ranked in 2019.

2registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#601highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2016

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1591
1997	#2337
1998	#2419
1999	#2097
2001	#3134
2004	#3651
2005	#3849
2009	#4527
2012	#4805
2016	#4810

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 10 of the 21 years from 1996 to 2016.

In 2016: #601 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #4810 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2019 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1591 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2016–2019
Highest recorded position: #601 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2016–2019).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #764 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2019.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Rob appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 38 births with the name.

Rob across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rob's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1591 (1996)	#1591 (1996)	#4810 (2016)	10 of 21	38 (1996–2016)	7 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#601 (2016)	#601 (2016)	#764 (2019)	2 of 4	7 (2016–2019)	4 (2016)

Rob by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rob in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	20	4 of 10	5
2000s	12	4 of 10	3
2010s	6	2 of 10	3

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #601 in Republic of Ireland in 2016.

Rob's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1591	7	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2019, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #601, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 20 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#764position in 2019, its most recent recorded year
20 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
7births registered in its largest year, 1996Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Artyom · #601, 11y
Emanuele · #601, 12y
Matus · #601, 14y
Ralfs · #601, 15y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Davie · #601, 26y
Hao · #601, 20y
Kory · #601, 30y
Rhyan · #601, 22y

Rob was ranked #601 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abel#601
Adomas#601
Adrians#601
Albie#601
Aahil#713
Aarav#713
Adas#713
Ailbe#713

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #601 in Republic of Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Rob

Rob at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rob across 2 official records

Rob by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rob

Rob at a glance

Rob across 2 official records

Rob by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rob