Proper noun

1. , one of the most common English names since the Norman Conquest.

Related terms

• pet forms: Bob, Bobbie, Bobby, Rabbie (Scottish), Rob, Robbie, Robby
• variants: Robin, Rupert
• feminine forms: Roberta, Robin, Robyn

Quotations

• My brother Robert? Old Sir Robert's son?

  Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man?

• 1984 John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir, Mariner Books, 2005, ISBN 0618509631, page 93

  I hadn't even considered names for a girl. Robby it would be. Robert Douglas. Where the Douglas came from is another story, but the Robert came from me because I liked the sound. Robert was formal, dignified, important. Robert. And that was nearly as nice as as the chance I'd have to call my little brother Rob and Robby.

Proper noun

1. , cognate to Robert.

Proper noun

1. , cognate to English Robert.

Proper noun

1. , equivalent to English Robert.

Declension