Meaning not yet researched.
Rubin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #384 in 1907.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #384 in 1907; #5,571 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rubin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,571 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1907, at #384.
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Rubin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #384 in 1907 · most boys in one year: 147 (1923).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Rubin, making it the 5,571st most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,180 places from #6,751 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 13 boys named Rubin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #384, reached in 1907. The most boys given the name in a single year was 147, in 1923. For comparison, it was #3,574 in 2015 and #805 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rubin in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 14 babies. In all, 7,070 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,121 babies named Rubin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 173 US boys were named Rubin; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ruben (117,207 babies since 1880), Robin (338,913 babies since 1880), Robyn (64,604 babies since 1880) and Robbin (10,384 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Rubin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,571 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,751 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,819 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,179 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,466 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,414 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,303 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,071 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,733 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,280 |
| 2015 | — | — | 31 | #3,574 |
| 2014 | — | — | 29 | #3,677 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,763 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,443 |
| 2011 | — | — | 23 | #4,331 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,080 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,742 |
| 2008 | — | — | 30 | #3,632 |
| 2007 | — | — | 18 | #5,170 |
| 2006 | — | — | 36 | #3,072 |
| 2005 | — | — | 27 | #3,597 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #3,002 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,256 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,872 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,305 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,794 |
| 1999 | — | — | 31 | #2,780 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,770 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,298 |
| 1996 | — | — | 34 | #2,372 |
| 1995 | — | — | 28 | #2,672 |
| 1994 | — | — | 35 | #2,296 |
| 1993 | — | — | 31 | #2,444 |
| 1992 | — | — | 41 | #1,976 |
| 1991 | — | — | 46 | #1,764 |
| 1990 | — | — | 38 | #2,007 |
| 1989 | — | — | 45 | #1,729 |
| 1988 | — | — | 50 | #1,511 |
| 1987 | — | — | 44 | #1,606 |
| 1986 | — | — | 47 | #1,469 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,720 |
| 1984 | — | — | 43 | #1,477 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,511 |
| 1982 | — | — | 39 | #1,586 |
| 1981 | — | — | 44 | #1,450 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,954 |
| 1979 | — | — | 55 | #1,252 |
| 1978 | — | — | 52 | #1,254 |
| 1977 | — | — | 55 | #1,197 |
| 1976 | — | — | 60 | #1,093 |
| 1975 | — | — | 43 | #1,341 |
| 1974 | — | — | 54 | #1,122 |
| 1973 | — | — | 62 | #1,032 |
| 1972 | — | — | 56 | #1,095 |
| 1971 | — | — | 60 | #1,055 |
| 1970 | — | — | 61 | #1,049 |
| 1969 | — | — | 52 | #1,081 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,935 | 47 | #1,098 |
| 1967 | — | — | 55 | #984 |
| 1966 | — | — | 53 | #1,005 |
| 1965 | — | — | 44 | #1,139 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,593 | 59 | #988 |
| 1963 | — | — | 71 | #889 |
| 1962 | — | — | 75 | #887 |
| 1961 | — | — | 75 | #889 |
| 1960 | — | — | 58 | #1,016 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,098 | 55 | #1,046 |
| 1958 | — | — | 66 | #943 |
| 1957 | — | — | 63 | #963 |
| 1956 | — | — | 82 | #830 |
| 1955 | — | — | 87 | #785 |
| 1954 | — | — | 78 | #825 |
| 1953 | — | — | 62 | #918 |
| 1952 | — | — | 67 | #858 |
| 1951 | — | — | 84 | #765 |
| 1950 | — | — | 72 | #805 |
| 1949 | — | — | 77 | #788 |
| 1948 | — | — | 84 | #735 |
| 1947 | — | — | 72 | #819 |
| 1946 | — | — | 57 | #876 |
| 1945 | — | — | 50 | #911 |
| 1944 | — | — | 58 | #829 |
| 1943 | — | — | 58 | #882 |
| 1942 | — | — | 49 | #955 |
| 1941 | — | — | 55 | #856 |
| 1940 | — | — | 51 | #887 |
| 1939 | — | — | 55 | #827 |
| 1938 | — | — | 59 | #813 |
| 1937 | — | — | 52 | #853 |
| 1936 | — | — | 56 | #824 |
| 1935 | — | — | 62 | #789 |
| 1934 | — | — | 56 | #840 |
| 1933 | — | — | 71 | #727 |
| 1932 | — | — | 81 | #683 |
| 1931 | — | — | 70 | #741 |
| 1930 | — | — | 92 | #641 |
| 1929 | — | — | 79 | #700 |
| 1928 | — | — | 100 | #612 |
| 1927 | — | — | 99 | #636 |
| 1926 | — | — | 112 | #596 |
| 1925 | — | — | 108 | #608 |
| 1924 | — | — | 128 | #559 |
| 1923 | — | — | 147 | #505 |
| 1922 | — | — | 125 | #570 |
| 1921 | — | — | 107 | #614 |
| 1920 | — | — | 116 | #579 |
| 1919 | — | — | 122 | #542 |
| 1918 | — | — | 130 | #533 |
| 1917 | — | — | 119 | #534 |
| 1916 | — | — | 134 | #492 |
| 1915 | — | — | 141 | #465 |
| 1914 | — | — | 110 | #461 |
| 1913 | — | — | 93 | #447 |
| 1912 | — | — | 73 | #463 |
| 1911 | — | — | 49 | #412 |
| 1910 | — | — | 40 | #438 |
| 1909 | — | — | 30 | #469 |
| 1908 | — | — | 23 | #537 |
| 1907 | — | — | 35 | #384 |
| 1906 | — | — | 30 | #398 |
| 1905 | — | — | 26 | #428 |
| 1904 | — | — | 15 | #608 |
| 1903 | — | — | 16 | #573 |
| 1902 | — | — | 22 | #455 |
| 1901 | — | — | 14 | #553 |
| 1900 | — | — | 23 | #486 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #770 |
| 1898 | — | — | 17 | #518 |
| 1897 | — | — | 14 | #578 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #631 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #965 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #720 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #820 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #678 |
| 1891 | — | — | 13 | #521 |
| 1890 | — | — | 13 | #559 |
| 1889 | — | — | 8 | #776 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #692 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #736 |
| 1886 | — | — | 8 | #748 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #689 |
| 1884 | — | — | 9 | #698 |
| 1882 | — | — | 12 | #572 |
| 1880 | — | — | 14 | #501 |
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).