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National Robin Day

Next celebratedWednesday, March 3, 2027

The Robins get March 3, and the bird that shares the name keeps a day of its own in December. The most famous Robin of all may never have existed, which takes nothing away from the ones who do.

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YEARLY DATEMarch 3
OBSERVED INUnited States
CATEGORYNames
ORIGIN

Community Origin

FOUNDING ENTITY
Not documented
FIRST OBSERVED
Not documented
HOW THE HOLIDAY CAME TO BE

The other National Robin Day belongs to a bird charity.

No founder, organization or establishing record has surfaced for the March 3 observance, unlike the separate National Robin Day that the UK charity SongBird Survival runs on 21 December. The March 3 day's earliest dated trace is an archived holiday listing carrying that date, captured in August 2022, which fixes a floor for the listing rather than a founding.

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INTRO

Ask two registries how old a Robin is

Ask two national registries who the Robins are, and they describe different generations. Statistics Estonia's public page for the name puts the median age of an Estonian named Robin at 13. National Robin Day is kept for the people who carry the name, and in the United States that is a very different room.

Half of everyone ever recorded as Robin in the Social Security Administration's national name data was born in 1963 or earlier. Estonia's register runs the other way. Its oldest Robin sits in the 75 to 79 age band and its youngest in the 0 to 4.

The name is the same in both places. The two countries reached for it in different decades, and both are still using it.

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ORIGINS

Robin Day history

INTRODUCTION

Robin began as a shortening of another name. Behind the Name files it as a medieval English diminutive of Robert, now usually regarded as an independent name.

The name also carries a legend. Britannica says no claim identifying Robin Hood with a particular historical figure has gained much support, and that the outlaw's existence may never have been anything but legendary.

CHAPTER 01

The American century

Robin reached American records early and quietly. The Social Security files carry it from 1881, when five boys were given it. The first six girls appear in 1904.

Then the name took off. In 1961 it went to 15,653 American girls, a figure no other year matches.

Two well known bearers belong to that stretch of the century. A. A. Milne named the Winnie-the-Pooh character after his son Christopher Robin Milne, who was born in 1920. The actor and comedian Robin Williams was born in 1951 and died in 2014.

CHAPTER 02

First on Estonia's boys' list

Estonia's Robins arrived much later. Statistics Estonia ranked the name fifth among Estonian boys' names in 2011 and first in 2016.

Then it did it twice more. The agency ranked Robin first among Estonian boys in 2020 and again in 2021. Its release that year added that the name had spent a decade among Estonia's six most popular names.

The government kept counting after that. The Estonian Ministry of the Interior listed Robin among the ten first names most often given to boys born in 2025.

CHAPTER 03

The date arrives last

The observance itself is the thinnest part of this story. National Robin Day's March 3 date reaches back no further than an archived web capture from August 2022, and what a capture dates is the page it preserved. What the day rests on instead is the registers, which are still recording Robins being born.

WHY THIS DAY MATTERS

Why We Love National Robin Day

LANGUAGES

English, French, Dutch, Swedish and Czech all use it.

Behind the Name records Robin in current use in English, French, Dutch, Swedish and Czech. A day for people named Robin therefore reaches well past the country that shortened Robert into it.

SPELLING

Which Robins get counted is a choice

Every figure on this page counts the exact spelling Robin, and Robyn is counted separately. Folding the two spellings together would lift the 2025 American total from 782 to 941.

BRITAIN

Still given in the country that made it

The Office for National Statistics recorded Robin for 437 boys born in England and Wales in 2024. The medieval English shortening of Robert is still going onto birth registers there.

BY THE NUMBERS

National Robin Day by the Numbers

2,051
Men in Estonia named Robin, 2026
15
Women in Estonia named Robin, 2026
54.91
Robins per 10,000 Estonian residents aged 5-9
400
US girls named Robin, 2025 births
382
US boys named Robin, 2025 births

TIMELINE

Timeline

Robin enters the US name data

The Social Security Administration's national files record the name for five boys.

The first American girls

Six girls are recorded as Robin, in a year that also records six boys.

The American peak

American records show 15,653 girls given the name, the most in any year.

Estonia's most popular boys' name

Statistics Estonia's published table ranks Robin first among Estonian boys' names.

Estonia ranks it first again

The agency's table puts Robin first for a second year running, after first place in 2020.

The earliest capture on record

A web archive preserves a third-party listing that carries the day, the earliest such capture found.

MYTH VS FACT

Common Misconceptions

The myth

Robin Hood lived in the time of Richard I.

The truth

Britannica says that popular modern belief probably stems from a pedigree fabricated by the 18th-century antiquary William Stukeley.

The myth

The early ballads put Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest.

The truth

Britannica says internal evidence from the early ballads places the action chiefly in South Yorkshire, generally around Barnsdale, though Robin Hood and the Monk does name Sherwood Forest as its setting.

The myth

Maid Marian was in the story from the start.

The truth

Britannica says her association with the outlaw likely began as a separate shepherd-and-shepherdess love story that merged with the legend in the 16th century.

GET INVOLVED

How to Celebrate National Robin Day

EDITOR'S PICK

Greet the Robins in your life

March 3 is their date, so say so out loud. A name day only works when somebody else remembers it.

LOOK

Look the name up in a national register

Statistics Estonia publishes a page for every first name in its population register. Try Robin first, then try your own.

ASK

Ask which Robin people picture first

The name is carried by a legendary outlaw and a boy in a storybook, as well as by everyone at your table. Put the question to the room and see which one wins.

WATCH

Watch a Robin Williams film

The actor and comedian is one of the name's bearers on record. Pick one of his films that nobody in the room has seen.

PUT

Put the other Robin Day in your calendar

A second National Robin Day falls on 21 December, aimed at the bird rather than the name. If the bird is what brought you here, that is the date to mark.

Test your knowledge

How well do you know National Robin Day?

1 / 8

What is the median age of a person named Robin in Estonia?

Answer

No. It is an unofficial observance with no legal standing, so March 3 is a normal working day.

COLOPHON

Sources

How we know what’s on this page. References, not endorsements.

11sources
9primary records
8independently dated
Primary records
Statistics Estonia2026
Eesnime Robin statistika
How many Estonians are named Robin, their median age, and where they cluster.
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Statistics Estonia2021-01
2020. aasta popimad nimed olid Robin ja Sofia
The agency's ranked table of Estonia's most popular names for 2020 and 2019.
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Statistics Estonia2022-01
Eestis sai taas enim lapsi nimeks Robin või Mia
Estonia's 2021 name rankings, with comparison columns for 2016 and 2011.
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Estonian Ministry of the Interior2026-01
2025. aastal registreeriti 9092 sündi
Estonia's 2025 birth registrations and the ten names most often given to boys.
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US Social Security Administration2025
Beyond the Top 1000 Names
Every first name on US Social Security card applications, by birth year and sex.
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UK Office for National Statistics2024
Baby names for boys in England and Wales
Counts and ranks for every boys' name registered in England and Wales.
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UK Office for National Statistics2024
Baby names for girls in England and Wales
The matching girls' file of first names registered in England and Wales.
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SongBird Survival
National Robin Day
The UK charity's own page for its 21 December winter songbird campaign.
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US Federal Register2026
Document search for the phrase National Robin Day
A federal document search returning no match for the day's name.
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Additional coverage
Behind the Name
Robin
The name's medieval English origin, the languages that use it, and its bearers.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Robin Hood
What the early ballads say about the outlaw, and what later antiquaries invented.
View source
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