Is Robin a male or female name?
Robin is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 86% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 68%
- Sample size
- 433,280
- Confidence
- high
Robin by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 86% | 338,093 | ssa |
| France FR | male | 100% | 59,650 | insee |
| England and Wales GB | male | 82% | 10,247 | ons |
| Switzerland CH | male | 97% | 9,778 | bfs |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 5,249 | ssb |
| Canada CA | male | 65% | 4,585 | statcan |
| Austria AT | male | 98% | 3,007 | statat |
| Ireland IE | male | 61% | 1,326 | cso |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 724 | ine |
| Poland PL | male | 91% | 621 | pesel |
Attested in 71 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Robin over time
In the United States, 31.1% of the babies named Robin in the 1910s were girls, against 52.4% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 17.6% of the babies named Robin in the 1950s were girls, against 0.2% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 31% | 293 | — | |
| 1920s | 39% | 784 | — | |
| 1930s | 44% | 1,638 | — | |
| 1940s | 63% | 9,854 | — | |
| 1950s | 84% | 97,646 | 18% | 255 |
| 1960s | 92% | 129,168 | 5% | 560 |
| 1970s | 91% | 50,515 | 0% | 900 |
| 1980s | 86% | 26,527 | 0% | 3,430 |
| 1990s | 79% | 10,806 | 0% | 15,065 |
| 2000s | 68% | 3,805 | 0% | 13,115 |
| 2010s | 56% | 3,878 | 0% | 18,310 |
| 2020s | 52% | 3,076 | 0% | 7,940 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Robin with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Robin&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Robin
Is Robin a male or female name?
Robin is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 86% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Robin change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Robin identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.