Roberts
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Roberts is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname. Recorded meaning: from Robert, with -s patronymic ending; hereditary surname form.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 490(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 622
- CACanada≈1 in 877
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #202 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 616 (measured from records)
- 1 in 126 (inferred from the name graph)
376,774 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Robert, with -s patronymic ending; hereditary surname form.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roberts counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #41 | 376,774 | 1 in 883 | 377K | Roberts | 616 |
| GB United Kingdom | #18 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 490 | 3 | Roberts | 385 |
| EG Egypt | #859 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Roberts | 23 |
| CA Canada | #36 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 877 | — | Roberts | 273 |
| AU Australia | #22 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 622 | — | Roberts | 285 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2,799 | 1 in 268 | 2.8K | — | 17 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 805 | 1 in 126 | 805 | — | 14 |
| GD Grenada | — | 630 | 1 in 180 | 630 | — | 17 |
| DM Dominica | — | 403 | 1 in 184 | 403 | — | 9 |
376,774 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Roberts is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic from the given name Robert.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, son of Robert
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In French, Forme patronymique ou variante de Robert.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Variante de Robert.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Irish, This name is found in all the provinces but is rare in Connacht. When of Scottish origin it is frequently met in Ulster with the prefix Mac. Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Margaret Thatcherb. 1925GBnot in their usual nameBritish stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
- Doris Robertsb. 1925USAmerican actress (1925–2016)
- Judith Robertsb. 1935USAmerican actress
- Tony Robertsb. 1939USAmerican actor (1939–2025)
- Tanya Robertsb. 1949USAmerican actress (1949–2021)
- John Robertsb. 1955USChief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2005
- Eric Robertsb. 1956USAmerican actor (born 1956)
- Julia Robertsb. 1967USAmerican actress (born 1967)
- Dallas Robertsb. 1970USAmerican actor (born 1970)
- Emma Robertsb. 1991USAmerican actress, singer, model and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 377K | #50 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 366K | #45 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 362K | #51 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2.8K | #24 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 805 | #16 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 630 | #19 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 403 | #26 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roberts mean, and where does it come from?
- from Robert, with -s patronymic ending; hereditary surname form. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- In which country does Roberts have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 377 thousand people named Roberts, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roberts.
- Where is Roberts most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roberts is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 126 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Roberts?
- In the etymology graph, Berto, Rab and Brecht are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Roberts?
- In the United States, the national register counted 376,774 people named Roberts in 2010, about 1 in 883 residents.
- How common is Roberts compared with other names?
- In the United States, Roberts is the 41st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/robertsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roberts” — the 41st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.