Surname Spotlight: Rob

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Meaning of the name

Genealogists group Rob with Robb. Name scholars give the meaning as “Son of Rob (Robert)”.

Rob drops the “b” of Robb, a simplification that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Rob with 537 bearers, at rank 40,672. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 134 babies born in France were registered as Rob, with the most births in 1921–1930.

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