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Reuben: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 269 in 2025. Its best rank was #149 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #149 in 1880; #889 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Reuben in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#889 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #149.
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Reuben: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 269 boys in 2025. Peak: #149 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 465 (1920).
In 2025, 269 US boys were named Reuben, making it the 889th most common boys’ name of the year, down 29 places from #860 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 283 boys named Reuben in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #149, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 465, in 1920. For comparison, it was #868 in 2015 and #464 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Reuben in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 92 babies with the name. In all, 32,190 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,882 babies named Reuben.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,614 US boys were named Reuben; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 303. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,350 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Reuben ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #368 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ruben (117,207 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reuven and Reubin are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Rube.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Reuven (1,091), Reubin (636).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 7 | #368 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #385 | #388 |
| Missouri | 14 | #455 | #486 |
| Iowa | 7 | #487 | — |
| Michigan | 15 | #563 | #749 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #628 | #572 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #672 | #542 |
| Maryland | 7 | #681 | — |
| Ohio | 13 | #703 | #641 |
| Indiana | 9 | #704 | #779 |
| Colorado | 7 | #740 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #781 | #793 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #791 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #816 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #875 | #627 |
| New York | 15 | #907 | #884 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #923 | #967 |
| Virginia | 7 | #944 | #863 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,154 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,250 | #1,499 |
| California | 13 | #1,417 | #1,204 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,449 | #1,255 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,508 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,730 | #913 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 269 | #889 |
| 2024 | — | — | 283 | #860 |
| 2023 | — | — | 303 | #812 |
| 2022 | — | — | 285 | #852 |
| 2021 | — | — | 263 | #883 |
| 2020 | — | — | 246 | #909 |
| 2019 | — | — | 245 | #893 |
| 2018 | — | — | 229 | #928 |
| 2017 | — | — | 240 | #897 |
| 2016 | — | — | 251 | #875 |
| 2015 | — | — | 258 | #868 |
| 2014 | — | — | 267 | #844 |
| 2013 | — | — | 237 | #880 |
| 2012 | — | — | 215 | #947 |
| 2011 | — | — | 215 | #931 |
| 2010 | — | — | 202 | #978 |
| 2009 | — | — | 242 | #874 |
| 2008 | — | — | 223 | #919 |
| 2007 | — | — | 226 | #891 |
| 2006 | — | — | 236 | #854 |
| 2005 | — | — | 222 | #837 |
| 2004 | — | — | 226 | #801 |
| 2003 | — | — | 233 | #761 |
| 2002 | — | — | 236 | #739 |
| 2001 | — | — | 220 | #775 |
| 2000 | — | — | 215 | #775 |
| 1999 | — | — | 234 | #710 |
| 1998 | — | — | 231 | #719 |
| 1997 | — | — | 205 | #740 |
| 1996 | — | — | 225 | #706 |
| 1995 | — | — | 226 | #706 |
| 1994 | — | — | 247 | #661 |
| 1993 | — | — | 240 | #666 |
| 1992 | — | — | 249 | #661 |
| 1991 | — | — | 275 | #616 |
| 1990 | — | — | 304 | #582 |
| 1989 | — | — | 287 | #577 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,369 | 274 | #556 |
| 1987 | — | — | 292 | #527 |
| 1986 | — | — | 295 | #515 |
| 1985 | — | — | 279 | #523 |
| 1984 | — | — | 255 | #545 |
| 1983 | — | — | 240 | #543 |
| 1982 | — | — | 267 | #523 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,812 | 276 | #508 |
| 1980 | — | — | 294 | #495 |
| 1979 | — | — | 267 | #515 |
| 1978 | — | — | 295 | #473 |
| 1977 | — | — | 287 | #476 |
| 1976 | — | — | 269 | #483 |
| 1975 | — | — | 229 | #530 |
| 1974 | — | — | 245 | #507 |
| 1973 | — | — | 212 | #538 |
| 1972 | — | — | 231 | #518 |
| 1971 | — | — | 259 | #506 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,767 | 248 | #512 |
| 1969 | — | — | 160 | #621 |
| 1968 | — | — | 181 | #566 |
| 1967 | — | — | 178 | #562 |
| 1966 | — | — | 174 | #574 |
| 1965 | — | — | 214 | #525 |
| 1964 | — | — | 236 | #510 |
| 1963 | — | — | 246 | #512 |
| 1962 | — | — | 214 | #544 |
| 1961 | — | — | 222 | #534 |
| 1960 | — | — | 251 | #498 |
| 1959 | — | — | 242 | #506 |
| 1958 | — | — | 216 | #524 |
| 1957 | — | — | 241 | #500 |
| 1956 | — | — | 220 | #511 |
| 1955 | — | — | 221 | #497 |
| 1954 | — | — | 180 | #539 |
| 1953 | — | — | 201 | #496 |
| 1952 | — | — | 246 | #452 |
| 1951 | — | — | 220 | #457 |
| 1950 | — | — | 206 | #464 |
| 1949 | — | — | 207 | #458 |
| 1948 | — | — | 213 | #457 |
| 1947 | — | — | 202 | #474 |
| 1946 | — | — | 227 | #422 |
| 1945 | — | — | 181 | #442 |
| 1944 | — | — | 204 | #426 |
| 1943 | — | — | 201 | #447 |
| 1942 | — | — | 222 | #412 |
| 1941 | — | — | 213 | #396 |
| 1940 | — | — | 190 | #425 |
| 1939 | — | — | 178 | #427 |
| 1938 | — | — | 217 | #382 |
| 1937 | — | — | 203 | #387 |
| 1936 | — | — | 209 | #378 |
| 1935 | — | — | 227 | #359 |
| 1934 | — | — | 225 | #363 |
| 1933 | — | — | 229 | #359 |
| 1932 | — | — | 248 | #351 |
| 1931 | — | — | 250 | #349 |
| 1930 | — | — | 283 | #329 |
| 1929 | — | — | 290 | #326 |
| 1928 | — | — | 303 | #321 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,473 | 375 | #297 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,743 | 367 | #298 |
| 1925 | — | — | 361 | #301 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,742 | 435 | #273 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,873 | 426 | #275 |
| 1922 | — | — | 439 | #271 |
| 1921 | — | — | 399 | #278 |
| 1920 | — | — | 465 | #254 |
| 1919 | — | — | 432 | #255 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,442 | 453 | #250 |
| 1917 | — | — | 430 | #244 |
| 1916 | — | — | 441 | #239 |
| 1915 | — | — | 431 | #231 |
| 1914 | — | — | 372 | #216 |
| 1913 | — | — | 293 | #217 |
| 1912 | — | — | 220 | #235 |
| 1911 | — | — | 109 | #246 |
| 1910 | — | — | 93 | #251 |
| 1909 | — | — | 91 | #229 |
| 1908 | — | — | 102 | #199 |
| 1907 | — | — | 88 | #217 |
| 1906 | — | — | 79 | #222 |
| 1905 | — | — | 88 | #197 |
| 1904 | — | — | 71 | #222 |
| 1903 | — | — | 65 | #227 |
| 1902 | — | — | 82 | #198 |
| 1901 | — | — | 68 | #207 |
| 1900 | — | — | 86 | #212 |
| 1899 | — | — | 64 | #207 |
| 1898 | — | — | 78 | #195 |
| 1897 | — | — | 82 | #190 |
| 1896 | — | — | 90 | #181 |
| 1895 | — | — | 102 | #155 |
| 1894 | — | — | 87 | #174 |
| 1893 | — | — | 86 | #169 |
| 1892 | — | — | 89 | #178 |
| 1891 | — | — | 75 | #174 |
| 1890 | — | — | 75 | #179 |
| 1889 | — | — | 73 | #183 |
| 1888 | — | — | 84 | #176 |
| 1887 | — | — | 54 | #214 |
| 1886 | — | — | 81 | #172 |
| 1885 | — | — | 72 | #182 |
| 1884 | — | — | 82 | #172 |
| 1883 | — | — | 57 | #201 |
| 1882 | — | — | 73 | #184 |
| 1881 | — | — | 73 | #165 |
| 1880 | — | — | 92 | #149 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).