Robbe: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Arms linked to Robb and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Robbe means

Robbe is an established spelling of the Scottish surname Robb. The name is usually explained as “Son of Rob (Robert)”.

The extra “e” in Robbe is a spelling habit rather than a different name. The same family of names includes Robe and Rob. Robbe ranked 68,122 in the 2010 US Census, with 289 people answering to the name. It sits within the 100,000 most common last names in the country. From 1891 to 2000, 3,632 births in France were registered under Robbe.

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