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The ROBBINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 78,141 364 0.029 290
United States (1880 census) 17,793 308 0.036 356
Change since 1880 +60348 -56 -0.007 -66
Other Countries
Australia 1,642 990 0.01 100
United Kingdom 7,468 824 0.016 163
Top States for ROBBINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 5,600 556 0.017 165
Florida 5,358 313 0.034 335
Texas 4,972 486 0.024 238
North Carolina 4,190 234 0.052 521
New York 3,644 417 0.019 192
Top States for ROBBINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 1,269 129 0.100 995
Mississippi 1,529 263 0.054 537
North Carolina 4,190 234 0.052 521
Indiana 3,157 179 0.052 519
Tennessee 2,707 303 0.048 476

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ROBBINS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ROBBINS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ROBBINS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ROBBINS by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ROBBINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ROBBINS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ROBBINS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ROBBINS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 625 0.8
Asian/Pacific 320 0.41
White (Caucasian) 69,616 89.09
Black/African American 5,493 7.03
Mixed Race 1,063 1.36
White (Hispanic) 1,016 1.3

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ROBBINS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ROBBINS in historical publications

ROBINS. ROBBINS. Robjn is a medieval diminutive, or nick-name, of Robert, as in Robin Hood, Robin Goodfellow. It generally implies something

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ROBBINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROBBINS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ROBBINS

The following words are slight variants of ROBBINS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.