Definition of "Robin"

A unisex given name

1. A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • They ſay hee is already in the Forreſt of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there liue like the old Robin Hood of England

     c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i], page 186, column 1

   • This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think we'll call him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.

     1785, Robert Burns, Rantin', Rovin' Robin

   • Some names simply aren't appropriate after a while. Say you were called Robin, for instance. Well that's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine, but pretty soon you'd have to do something about it, wouldn't you? Change your name by deed-poll to Samson, or Goliath, or something.

     1991, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, Jonathan Cape, page 12

2. A female given name from the Germanic languages, also associated with the bird robin.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • "We'll name her Robin," her mother said, and it was as though at her words something of that spring and the bird's song and his gay and friendly and impudent spirit entered into the child.

     1949, Adela Rogers St. John, Never Again, and Other Stories, Doubleday, page 25

(rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.

(soccer) Someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach, etc.  examples