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How popular is the name Ruben?

Births per year, rank history and how many Rubens are alive today.

Ruben (male) is currently the 100th most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 527 babies given the name in 2025. This spelling of the name peaked in 2021, when 540 babies were given the name, the 110th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 8,700 babies have been named Ruben in England and Wales since 1996. Ruben is one spelling of a name also recorded as Rueben; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Ruben you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Rubens born in England and Wales are between 5 and 17, and there are at least 10,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 3.2% chance that at least one of them will be called Ruben.

How many babies are named Ruben each year?

Includes all spellings: Ruben, Rueben. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Ruben spelling rank?

Where does the Rueben spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.