Robin

See also: robin

English

Alternative forms

Robyn (as a given name)

Etymology

(masculine given name): From Middle English Robin, from Old French, diminutive of Robert
(feminine given name): From the bird, robin
(given name): From Germanic

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒbɪn/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑbɪn/
Rhymes: -ɒbɪn
Hyphenation: Rob‧in

Proper noun

Robin (plural Robins)

A unisex given name
1. A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
  - c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
    , Scene 1:
    They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England.
  - 1785, Robert Burns, Rantin', Rovin' Robin:
    This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think we'll call him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.
  - 1991, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 12:
    Some names simply aren't appropriate after a while. Say you were called Robin, for instance. Well that's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine, but pretty soon you'd have to do something about it, wouldn't you? Change your name by deed-poll to Samson, or Goliath, or something.
2. A female given name from the Germanic languages, also associated with the bird robin.
  - 1949, Adela Rogers St. John, Never Again, and Other Stories (Doubleday 1949), page 25:
    "We'll name her Robin," her mother said, and it was as though at her words something of that spring and the bird's song and his gay and friendly and impudent spirit entered into the child.
(rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.

Derived terms

Robin Hood

Translations

Male given name

Chinese:
Mandarin: 罗宾
Dutch: Robin (nl) m or f
French: Robin (fr) m
German: Robin (de)
Hindi: रोबिन m (robin), रॉबिन m (rŏbin)
Japanese: ロビン (Robin)
Korean: 로빈 (Robin)
Marathi: रॉबिन m (rŏbin)
Russian: Ро́бин (ru) m (Róbin)

Noun

Robin (plural Robins)

(soccer) Someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach, etc.

Anagrams

Biron, Brion, inorb

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈrobɪn]

Proper noun

Robin m

a male given name, equivalent to English Robin

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Proper noun

Robin

a male given name, equivalent to English Robin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: Ro‧bin
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Robin

a unisex given name, equivalent to English Robin

Estonian

Etymology

Recently borrowed from English.

Proper noun

Robin

a male given name, equivalent to English Robin

French

Etymology

From Old French diminutive of Robert.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.bɛ̃/

Proper noun

Robin m

a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
a surname originating as a patronymic

Derived terms

Robin des Bois

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

Robin

a male given name, equivalent to English Robin

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French, diminutive of Robert.

Proper noun

Robin

a male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Robin
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
  Oure Hoste saugh that he was dronke of ale,
  And seyde, "Abyd, Robin, my leve brother,
  Som bettre man shal telle us first another:
  Abyd, and lat us werken thriftily."

Descendants

English: Robin
Yola: Rubbeen

References

“Robin, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Robin.

Proper noun

Robin

a male given name, equivalent to English Robin

Swedish

Etymology

From English Robin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1880.

Proper noun

Robin c (genitive Robins)

a male given name, equivalent to English Robin

References

Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 27 631 males with the given name Robin living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.