Rueben

What Rueben means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Rueben yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #387 vs #3,848 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Rueben?

US: Steady: #3982 in 2015, #3848 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #557 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1911, when 17 boys got the name (#793 that year). First in the US records in 1886.

How common

• About 1 in 61,003 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,541 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,455 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Rueben is #3848 in the US and #387 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Rueben were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Rueben

Boys

• Mark#244Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 58,727 babies; 1,416 in 2025
• Adam#101“earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Thomas#34“twin”^*
• John#23possibly “God is gracious”^*
• Patrick#235“patrician”^*
• Timothy#203“to honour + god”^*

For a sister

• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*
• Amy#257“beloved”^*
• Rachel#250“ewe”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Rueben’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.