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Rubin

#5,569 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Reuben

Rubin has been given to 7,070 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,569 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 147 recorded.

Babies named Rubin, 2025

1 in 195,000

Rubin over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rubin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Reuben

Hebrew

What Rubin means

Rubin is a variant of Reuben.

Origin, language, and formation

Rubin is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Reuben.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,054 boys were recorded with the name Rubin between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 147 in 1923; its best national rank was #384 in 1907.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,410 in 2020 to #5,569 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,573 in 2015 to #5,569 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Rubin between 1959 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1959; its best national rank was #6,097 in 1959.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rubin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,569
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rubin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rubin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rubins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rubin was born before 1945 — so the typical Rubin is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,230
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (1,121).

Is Rubin 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
+1,177
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−159
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,996
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.6%
Peak was 1923 (147)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#384
1907

Spellings of Rubin

Rubin is not the most common spelling — Ruben is, with 46.2% against Rubin's 2.8%.

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.

Where Rubin is used

Across 1910–2025, Rubin was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 37,803 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 10,000
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3Alabama1 in 14,286
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 20,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rubin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rubin around the world

Where Rubin 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #587
    in 2014
  • France
    1932–2023
    #4,759
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2010–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2000–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Rubin

People whose public names include Rubin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rubin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rubin. Linked forms have their own page here.

Ruben

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rubin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,569
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 159
Best rank ever
#384
1907
Peak year
1923
147 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,054
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,097
1959
Peak year
1959
6 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
1968
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rubin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TobinRubyAlbinKorbinRubenRobinJabinCorbinRubleRubeRobbinRubertSabinRubelOrbinZubinReubinRubensCobinRubieEbinIrbinJobinKebin

Names with a curve like Rubin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rubin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AntoneNapoleonRosarioEldridgeLacyPasqualeValentineHiltonCarletonGilesThurstonHaywood

Sibling names for Rubin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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