First name origin & meaning:
Old English: Bright; famous
First name variations: Robbi, Robbie, Robbee, Robby, Róbert, Roberto, Rupert, Rubert, Robertson, Robin, Robbins, Robben, Riobard, Robby, Robbie, Robey, Rober, Rab, Rob, Bobby, Bob, Bert, Berty, Tito, Dob, Dobbs, Robert
Last name origins & meanings:
- Northern English: patronymic from the personal name
Robin.
- One of the most famous bearers of this widespread northern English
name was the Puritan preacher John Robinson (c.1575–1625) of
Sturton, Nottinghamshire, England. In 1604 he was removed from his
fellowship of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, for his religious
views. He was the leader of the group of English Puritans who fled to
Leiden in the Netherlands in 1608–9, among whom were many of the
Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. His son Isaac
came to Plymouth, MA, in 1631, and eventually settled in Tisbury,
Martha’s Vineyard, in about 1670.
Famous people with this last name:
Emily Robinson,
Chris Robinson,
Smokey Robinson
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