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Robby

As a boy's name, Robby is understood to mean "bright fame". It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1964.

EtymologyDiminutive of Robert
EtymologyMeaning "bright fame"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
66
1930s
140
1940s
324
1950s
1,166
1960s
3,381
1970s
2,499
1980s
1,666
1990s
724
2000s
394
2010s
234
Peaked in the 1960s · 10,594 total U.S. births since 1900