When Lorne Malcolm Robinson was born on 20 December 1930, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Lorne Franklyn Robinson, was 23 and his mother, Virginia Iris Maxwell, was 21. He lived in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 29 March 2012, in Orlando, Orange, Florida, United States, at the age of 81.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): patronymic from the Middle English personal name Robin , a pet form of Robert , + -son. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
French: from a pet form of the personal name Robin .
West Indian (including Haiti) and Guyanese: most likely not (only) of English or French origin as in 1 above and 2 above, but also, if not mostly, from the related name of the famous Daniel Defoe's literary character Robinson Crusoe (from a novel first published in 1719).
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