Robin - would you immediately assume boy or girl?

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And what do you think of it?

2yo DD is Robin, like the bird. Her 2yo friend is also Robin, he's a boy. It seems a popular boys name here in Scotland!

Robin for boy / Robyn for girl

My DS 3yo is Robin. I hate it when someones asks 'I or Y?' when they know he's a boy!

Aww, my wee Robin.

Robin with an I for a girl is hardly recent though. Robin Wright Penn being the other side of 40.

I wanted a nature name but not a flower. Robyn is just a name (pretty though it is!), Robin is the bird and I wanted the bird for personal reasons. Wren and Raven are girl names so why not Robin?

I agree Robin = boy
Robyn = girl

Though I much prefer Rodin for a boy - Robin is a bit dated IMHO, but not really in a good way - though that might be because I'm married to one[ grin]

I have a boy Robin and apparently there were only a 100 boys named Robin in the year he was born. Absolutely hate 'Rob' as a nickname although he had a teacher who bizarrely insisted on reffering to him as 'Robbie'.

He gets very cross with anyone who spells t with a 'y' as he says that's the girls spelling.

I am now wondering if I know any of you in RL and you're talking about my Robin!

Boy.

The 'i' and 'y' used to be interchangeable. The many early records of a certain forest-dwelling outlaw referred to 'Robyn Hode'.

So it's not as simple as 'Robin' for boys, 'Robyn' for girls; or Robyn being American; or Robyn being modern.
(sorry about Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gest_of_Robyn_Hode )

I prefer 'Robin' for boys or girls, and I like it for both. For boys, it is a traditional diminutive of Robert, and for girls a nature name.