About the name Rob
Rob belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Rob first appears in Social Security records in 1884. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #334 in 1963, and in 2024 6 babies received the name — 8,768 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.