Robert
340
Babies in 2024
-46%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 2.64k
-5%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Robert
Robert peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (2,644 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 340 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Robert reached its peak in 1996, when 2,644 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #30 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 340 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 27,462 boys have been officially registered with the name Robert in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 5,314 boys were registered with the name, starting from 631 in 2014 and ending at 340 in 2024.