"fame-bright", "glory-bright", "shining with glory", "godlike-bright"
Region of origin
Germanic countries (England, Scotland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Iceland, Scandinavian region (Denmark, Sweden, Norway))
Other names
Derived
Hrōþiberhtaz
Related names
Variants Rupert, Ruprecht Boris Robrecht Rodbert Raivis Raivo Roberts Robin Robinette Roberta (female form) Nicknames
Rob (short form), Robb (short form), Roby (nickname), Robbie (nickname), Robby (nickname), Ro (nickname), Roe (nickname), Bob (nickname), Bobby (nickname)
After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form Robert, where an Old English cognate form (Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð, Hrōðberχtŕ) had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto.
Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be used as a French, Polish, Irish, Finnish, Romanian, and Estonian name as well.
The name Robert was a royal name in France, Germany, Scotland and England during the medieval period, and was the name of several kings, dukes, and other rulers and noblemen. It was one of the most popular male names in medieval Europe, likely due to its frequent usage amongst royalty and nobility. To this day, Robert remains one of the most frequently given male names.
Robert was in the top 10 most given boys' names in the United States for 47 years, from 1925 to 1972.[4] While some names become less frequently used due to negative associations, Robert is still widely used despite its connection to many negatively evaluated historical figures.
It is the fourth most common name in the United States, according to 100 years of Social Security Administration naming and mortality data.[5] There are 3,085,000 males and 13,571 females[6] with this name, for a total of 3,098,571 people with this name.
The name's second component, *berhta-, is the original root for the modern English word "bright".[8]
People named Robert
Royalty
Kings of Scotland
Robert the Bruce (1274–1329) ("Robert I of Scotland"), king and national hero of Scotland, legendary for his victory at the Battle of Bannockburn, one of the most prominent and skilled warriors of his time who freed Scotland from the English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence
Robert Le Mennot or The Hermit (14th century) French visionary and intermediary between King Charles VI of France and King Richard II of England and member of the Order of the Passion (now extinct)[1][2]
Folk heroes
Robert Huntington, known as Robin Hood, legendary heroic outlaw and nobleman originally depicted in English folklore, highly skilled archer and swordsman, sometimes regarded as a national hero of England
Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell (1493–1546), Scottish soldier and nobleman, member of the Council of Regency of the Kingdom of Scotland, Regent of the Isle of Arran, patriarch of the House of Maxwell/Clan Maxwell
Robert Naoussi (20th century) a young Cameroonian man who suffered from leprosy and died with a reputation for holiness. His cause for sainthood is underway.[10]
Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), former Zimbabwean politician and revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and President (Dictator) from 1987 to 2017
Robert S. Beightler (1892–1978), American military officer, major General, military governor of Okinawa, War Department General Staff, commander of the 37th Infantry Division
Robert Hoke (1837–1912), Confederate major general during the American Civil War
Robert B. Johnston (born 1937), retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general whose last duty assignment was as Commander, Marine Forces Atlantic Marine Forces Europe and II Marine Expeditionary Force
Robert Toombs (1810–1885), American lawyer, planter, army general, and politician from Georgia who became one of the organizers of the Confederacy and served as its first Secretary of State
Sir Robert Moray (1608/09–1673), Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy and natural philosopher, one of the founders of Royal Society and Freemasonry
Robert Ritter (1901–1951), Nazi German "racial scientist" doctor of psychology and medicine, with a background in child psychiatry and the biology of criminality
Robert Ballard (born 1942), retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island
Robert Bartlett (1875–1946), Newfoundland-born American Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, accompanied United States Navy Commander Robert Peary on his attempts to reach the North Pole
Robert Dudley (1574–1649), English explorer and cartographer
Sir Robert McClure (1807–1873), Irish explorer of the Arctic who in 1854 traversed the Northwest Passage by boat and sledge and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas
Robert Peary (1856–1920), American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic, reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909, believed to be the first man to have ever reached the North Pole
Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions
Robert Hanssen (1944–2023), former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) secret agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001
Robert "Bob" Chapek (born 1960), American media executive and businessman, chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, the current CEO of Walt Disney Company
Robert "Bob" Iger (born 1951), American media executive, film producer, author and businessman, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company
Robert "Rob" Lowe (born 1964), American actor, producer and director
Robert "Rob" Marshall (born 1960), American film and theater director, producer and choreographer
Robert McKimson (1910–1977), American animator and illustrator, best known for his work on creating the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
Robert "Bob" Peck (1945–1999), English stage, television and film actor
Robert Redford,(born 1936), American actor, director and producer
Robert Rodriguez (born 1968), American film director, screenwriter, producer, musician, filmmaker and visual effects supervisor, best known for his film Alita: Battle Angel
Robert Zemeckis (born 1952), Lithuanian-Italian born American film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for his "Back to the Future" film trilogy, frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects
Musicians
Record producers and DJs
Robert Abisi (born 1989), member of the electronic music and DJ duo Lost Kings
Robert Babicz (born 1973), Polish born German electronic music producer, DJ and mastering engineer
Robert van de Corput (born 1988), real name of the award-winning Dutch DJ, twice worlds No.1 DJ, composer and music producer Hardwell
Robert DeLong (born 1986), American electronic musician, record producer, composer and performer
Robert Hughes (fl. 2010s–2020s), real name of the Canadian trap music DJ and record producer known as Vincent and Tiger Drool
Robert Miles (1969–2017), Swiss-born Italian DJ and record producer, inventor of the dream trance genre;
Robert Toomey (1955–2022), real name of the American DJ, keyboardist and mixologist Brother Cleve
Robert "Bob" Rifo (born 1977), founder of the Italian electronic music project The Bloody Beetroots
Robert "Rob" Swire (born 1982), Australian electronic music producer and DJ
Singers
Roberto Carlos (born 1941), Brazilian singer-songwriter, also known as King of Latin Music or simply The King
Robert "Bob" Crosby (1913–1993), American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats
Robert "Bobby" Darin (1936–1973), American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor
Robert Francis (born 1987), American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter
Robert Kelly (born 1967), American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former semi-professional basketball player who helped redefine R&B and hip hop, earning the nicknames "King of R&B" and "King of Pop-Soul"
Robert Johnson (1911–1938), American blues singer-songwriter and musician
Robert "Rob" Zombie (born 1965), American musician, singer, songwriter, programmer, voice actor, filmmaker and founding member of the heavy metal band White Zombie
Robert Allen Zimmerman (born 1941), real name of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan
Robert Fripp (born 1946), English musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the band King Crimson
Robert "Rob" Hyman (born 1950), American singer, songwriter, keyboard and accordion player, producer, arranger, recording studio owner and a founding member of the rock band The Hooters
Robert Janson (born 1965), Polish composer, singer, guitarist, leader and co-founder of the band Varius Manx
Robert Boyle (1627–1691), British natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, first modern chemist, and one of the founders of modern chemistry
Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), German chemist who discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861, pioneer of photochemistry and organoarsenic chemistry and developer of the Bunsen burner
Robert F. Christy (1916–2012), Canadian-American theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, one of the last surviving people to have worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II
Robert Dorsey Coale (1857–1915), American chemist and colonel, professor and dean at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
Robert Darwin (1766–1848), English medical doctor, father of the naturalist Charles Robert Darwin
Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957), French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist, developer of ballistic missiles, father of modern rocketry
Robert Fulton (1765–1815), American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat known as North River Steamboat
Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor, credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, father of modern rocketry
Robert C. Green (fl. 1970s–2020s), American medical geneticist, physician, and public health researcher
Robert Gardiner Hill (1811–1878), British surgeon specialising in the treatment of lunacy
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English natural philosopher, architect and polymath, best known for discovering and naming the cell in 1665
Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet (1857–1933), Welsh orthopaedic surgeon who helped to establish the modern specialty of orthopaedic surgery in Britain, early proponent of the use of radiography in orthopaedics, and described the eponymous Jones fracture
Robert Koch (1843–1910), German physician and microbiologist, founder of modern bacteriology, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905 for his research on Tuberculosis
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect
Robert Crooke Wood (1799–1869), American physicist and neurologist during the American Civil War
Robert W. Wood (1868–1955), American physicist and inventor who is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared photography and ultraviolet photography
Robert J. White (1926–2010), American neurosurgeon best known for his head transplants on living monkeys
Robert M. Shelton (1929–2003), leader of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group
Robert Steinhäuser (1983–2002), German mass murderer and perpetrator of the Erfurt school massacre
Robert Stroud (1890–1963), a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States
Robert Tilton (born 1946), American televangelist and fraudster
Robert Trimbole (1931–1987), Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime boss
Robert Lee Yates (born 1952), American serial killer from Spokane, Washington
Robert J. Bulkley (1880–1965), United States Democratic Party Politician from Ohio;
Robert Baird (1798–1863), American clergyman and author
Robert Byrd (1917–2010), American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010
Robert Chadwick (1879–1939), Pennsylvania State Representative
Robert Crosser (1874–1957), U.S. Representative from Ohio, the longest serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Ohio
Robert "Bob" Dole (1923–2021), American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996
Robert Budd Dwyer (1939–1987), the 30th State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, best remembered for his public suicide on live TV;
Robert Goodloe Harper (1765–1825), a Federalist, member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until December of the same year
Robert Sobukwe (1924–1978), prominent South African political dissident and teacher who founded and became the first president of the Pan Africanist Congress
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer, best known for his work Treasure Island, which became one of the most popular literary works of all time
Robert Smalls, American businessman, publisher, and politician
Robert F. Smith, American billionaire, businessman, philanthropist, chemical engineer, and investor, founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners
Robert Trump, American real estate developer and business executive, brother of the president of America Donald Trump
Robert Winthrop, wealthy banker and capitalist in New York City
Administrators of NASA
Robert A. Frosch, American scientist who was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981
Robert J. Cenker, American aerospace and electrical engineer, aerospace systems consultant, and former astronaut
Robert Crippen, American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut
Robert Curbeam, former NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy
Robert L. Gibson, former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot and regular racer at the annual Reno Air Races
Robert S. Kimbrough, retired United States Army officer, and a NASA astronaut
Robert F. Overmyer, American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer and USAF/NASA astronaut
Robert A. Parker, American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut
Robert Satcher, American physician, chemical engineer and NASA astronaut
Robert Green, English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, played in the Premier League and Football League and for the England national team
Robert Barclay Allardice, generally known as Captain Barclay, Scottish walker of the early 19th century, known as the celebrated pedestrian, considered the father of the 19th century sport of pedestrianism, a precursor to racewalking
Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography and a lamp manufacturer who took the first light picture ever taken and whose self-taken portrait is the first known photographic portrait taken in America
Robert de Cotte, French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced
Robert Hichens, British sailor who was part of the deck crew on board the RMS Titanic as one of six quartermasters on board the vessel and was at the ships wheel when it struck the iceberg
Robert Topala, also known as Zhenmuron, Swedish musician and video game developer known for developing the popular rhythm based arcade art game Geometry Dash
King Robert Baratheon, a fictional king in A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin & the 2011 TV series Game of Thrones (King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, Lord of Storm's End, Lord Paramount of the Stormlands)
Robert McCall, vigilante CIA agent and main character in the film Equalizer
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