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, or 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.
- 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, [Act I, scene i], page 186, column 1:
- They ſay hee is already in the Forreſt of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there liue 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.
- 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, 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.
- 2019 March 8, Allen Kim, “What you don’t know about the Bush family dynasty”, in CNN[1]:
- In March 1953, a month after Jeb was born, the Bush family received the devastating news that Robin had leukemia. A local doctor told the Bushes that doctors had never seen a white blood cell count that high and there was nothing they could do for her.
- A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
- (rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms
Translations
Male given name
See also
- Robin (comic book character) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
Robin (plural Robins)
- (soccer) Someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrobɪn]
Proper noun
Robin m anim
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
Declension
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
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrobin/, [ˈro̞bin]
- Rhymes: -obin
- Syllabification(key): Ro‧bin
- Hyphenation(key): Ro‧bin
Proper noun
Robin
- a male given name
Declension
| Inflection of Robin (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Robin | Robinit | |
| genitive | Robinin | Robinien | |
| partitive | Robinia | Robineja | |
| illative | Robiniin | Robineihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Robin | Robinit | |
| accusative | nom. | Robin | Robinit |
| gen. | Robinin | ||
| genitive | Robinin | Robinien | |
| partitive | Robinia | Robineja | |
| inessive | Robinissa | Robineissa | |
| elative | Robinista | Robineista | |
| illative | Robiniin | Robineihin | |
| adessive | Robinilla | Robineilla | |
| ablative | Robinilta | Robineilta | |
| allative | Robinille | Robineille | |
| essive | Robinina | Robineina | |
| translative | Robiniksi | Robineiksi | |
| abessive | Robinitta | Robineitta | |
| instructive | — | Robinein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Statistics
- Robin is the 209th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 2,680 male individuals (and as a middle name to 471 more), and also belongs to 15 female individuals (and as a middle name to 18 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French diminutive of Robert. By surface analysis, Robert + -in.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɔ.bɛ̃/
- Rhymes: -ɛ̃
Proper noun
Robin m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Robin
- a surname originating as a patronymic
Derived terms
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."- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
Descendants
References
- “Robin, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian
Etymology
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
- a female given name
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [2] Statistical Central Office; and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 27 631 males with the given name Robin living in Sweden on December 31, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on June 19, 2011.