The ROBERT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,129	2730	0.004	45
United States (1880 census)	3,524	1736	0.007	70
Change since 1880	+8605	-994	-0.003	-25
Other Countries
Australia	263	5873	0.002	16
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for ROBERT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,148	399	0.026	257
California	1,011	2363	0.003	30
New York	978	1400	0.005	52
Florida	901	1715	0.006	56
Texas	722	2436	0.003	35
Top States for ROBERT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,148	399	0.026	257
Delaware	139	724	0.018	177
Rhode Island	169	609	0.016	161
Massachusetts	699	964	0.011	110
Vermont	61	1356	0.010	100

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ROBERT

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of ROBERT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	655	5.4
Mixed Race	247	2.04
Asian/Pacific	203	1.67
Native American/Alaskan	68	0.56
White (Caucasian)	9,009	74.28
Black/African American	1,945	16.04

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

Similar names to ROBERT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROBERT.

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.