Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 🇬🇧 Robson
/ROB · sun/
Meaning
“Son of Rob”
English and Brazilian Portuguese surname used as a given name, meaning son of Rob; in Brazil it became a standalone masculine given name entirely detached from its English surname origins.
Nicknames
rob
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Very distinctly Brazilian as a given name; in English contexts it reads purely as a surname.
The cultural moment.
Common in Brazil as a first name from the 1970s through the 1990s; declining in new births since the 2000s.