Meaning not yet researched.
Rueben: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #802 in 1921.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #802 in 1921; #3,929 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rueben in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,929 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1921, at #802.
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Rueben: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #802 in 1921 · most boys in one year: 72 (1990).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Rueben, making it the 3,929th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,682 places from #5,611 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 17 boys named Rueben in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #802, reached in 1921. The most boys given the name in a single year was 72, in 1990. For comparison, it was #4,053 in 2015 and #1,137 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rueben in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 7 babies. In all, 4,871 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 579 babies named Rueben.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 250 US boys were named Rueben; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ruben (117,207 babies since 1880) and Rubin (7,070 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 Rueben 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 | — | — | 28 | #3,929 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,611 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,439 |
| 2022 | — | — | 30 | #3,756 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,210 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,223 |
| 2019 | — | — | 34 | #3,415 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,977 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,752 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,587 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #4,053 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,601 |
| 2013 | — | — | 29 | #3,643 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,158 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,477 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,492 |
| 2009 | — | — | 39 | #3,033 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,996 |
| 2007 | — | — | 37 | #3,125 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,196 |
| 2005 | — | — | 29 | #3,436 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,412 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,613 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,873 |
| 2001 | — | — | 60 | #1,864 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,246 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,448 |
| 1998 | — | — | 39 | #2,304 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,724 |
| 1996 | — | — | 49 | #1,866 |
| 1995 | — | — | 47 | #1,859 |
| 1994 | — | — | 46 | #1,863 |
| 1993 | — | — | 49 | #1,765 |
| 1992 | — | — | 62 | #1,484 |
| 1991 | — | — | 50 | #1,670 |
| 1990 | — | — | 72 | #1,315 |
| 1989 | — | — | 64 | #1,380 |
| 1988 | — | — | 68 | #1,248 |
| 1987 | — | — | 57 | #1,313 |
| 1986 | — | — | 63 | #1,214 |
| 1985 | — | — | 46 | #1,475 |
| 1984 | — | — | 49 | #1,362 |
| 1983 | — | — | 55 | #1,250 |
| 1982 | — | — | 57 | #1,240 |
| 1981 | — | — | 51 | #1,306 |
| 1980 | — | — | 66 | #1,121 |
| 1979 | — | — | 52 | #1,286 |
| 1978 | — | — | 52 | #1,255 |
| 1977 | — | — | 54 | #1,206 |
| 1976 | — | — | 54 | #1,175 |
| 1975 | — | — | 58 | #1,112 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,303 |
| 1973 | — | — | 50 | #1,173 |
| 1972 | — | — | 57 | #1,080 |
| 1971 | — | — | 40 | #1,346 |
| 1970 | — | — | 47 | #1,218 |
| 1969 | — | — | 28 | #1,558 |
| 1968 | — | — | 33 | #1,362 |
| 1967 | — | — | 42 | #1,160 |
| 1966 | — | — | 44 | #1,126 |
| 1965 | — | — | 44 | #1,140 |
| 1964 | — | — | 35 | #1,346 |
| 1963 | — | — | 51 | #1,078 |
| 1962 | — | — | 55 | #1,037 |
| 1961 | — | — | 41 | #1,247 |
| 1960 | — | — | 49 | #1,130 |
| 1959 | — | — | 37 | #1,296 |
| 1958 | — | — | 50 | #1,087 |
| 1957 | — | — | 54 | #1,039 |
| 1956 | — | — | 38 | #1,253 |
| 1955 | — | — | 40 | #1,194 |
| 1954 | — | — | 40 | #1,198 |
| 1953 | — | — | 36 | #1,259 |
| 1952 | — | — | 34 | #1,295 |
| 1951 | — | — | 29 | #1,400 |
| 1950 | — | — | 40 | #1,137 |
| 1949 | — | — | 46 | #1,044 |
| 1948 | — | — | 31 | #1,319 |
| 1947 | — | — | 34 | #1,269 |
| 1946 | — | — | 27 | #1,375 |
| 1945 | — | — | 25 | #1,344 |
| 1944 | — | — | 23 | #1,432 |
| 1943 | — | — | 36 | #1,153 |
| 1942 | — | — | 35 | #1,190 |
| 1941 | — | — | 31 | #1,205 |
| 1940 | — | — | 23 | #1,428 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,861 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,678 |
| 1937 | — | — | 38 | #1,053 |
| 1936 | — | — | 35 | #1,114 |
| 1935 | — | — | 33 | #1,161 |
| 1934 | — | — | 22 | #1,489 |
| 1933 | — | — | 37 | #1,088 |
| 1932 | — | — | 25 | #1,418 |
| 1931 | — | — | 43 | #1,026 |
| 1930 | — | — | 48 | #989 |
| 1929 | — | — | 43 | #1,053 |
| 1928 | — | — | 50 | #975 |
| 1927 | — | — | 50 | #1,000 |
| 1926 | — | — | 62 | #841 |
| 1925 | — | — | 53 | #931 |
| 1924 | — | — | 62 | #883 |
| 1923 | — | — | 67 | #831 |
| 1922 | — | — | 69 | #816 |
| 1921 | — | — | 72 | #802 |
| 1920 | — | — | 51 | #971 |
| 1919 | — | — | 61 | #848 |
| 1918 | — | — | 59 | #867 |
| 1917 | — | — | 58 | #845 |
| 1916 | — | — | 41 | #1,009 |
| 1915 | — | — | 50 | #876 |
| 1914 | — | — | 41 | #852 |
| 1913 | — | — | 24 | #1,042 |
| 1912 | — | — | 16 | #1,215 |
| 1911 | — | — | 17 | #818 |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,183 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #922 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,388 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,073 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,372 |
| 1902 | — | — | 9 | #850 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,189 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #1,064 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #938 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #1,012 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #869 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #833 |
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).