Ruban
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ruban has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Ruban, 1990
1 in 790,000
Ruban over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ruban?
Ruban had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 790,000
- 5 of 3,949,959 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 411,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 547,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ruban sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruban. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rubans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruban was born before 1979 — so the typical Ruban is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Ruban rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (6)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Ruban
Ruban is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 52.4% against Ruban's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Ruban around the world
Where Ruban ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2004–2025#5,137in 2025
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ruban by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ruban
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ruban
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.