Rubén
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rubén is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Reuben (Biblical character and tribe).
- ARArgentina≈1 in 215(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 293
- ESSpain1 in 381
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rubén itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #259 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 509 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 215 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ruben in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 3 more and Ռուբեն in AM Armenia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Reuben (Biblical character and tribe)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rubén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #43 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 215 | 1.5K | Ruben | 166 |
| PH Philippines | #101 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 793 | listed | Ruben | 119 |
| ES Spain | #47 | 131,134 | 1 in 381 | 131K | Ruben | 239 |
| US United States | #379 | 126,201 | 1 in 2.6K | 126K | Ruben | 509 |
| PE Peru | #85 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 525 | — | Ruben | 117 |
| PY Paraguay | #23 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 293 | — | Ruben | 72 |
| AM Armenia | #67 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 373 | 98 | Ռուբեն | 91 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the ph-wiktionary-names register; Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rubén is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Hebreo: '¡mira, un hijo!' (raah + ben).
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rubén Darío pornob. 1867NINicaraguan poet, journalist, writer, and diplomat (1867-1916)1011
- Abimael Guzmánb. 1934PEnot in their usual namePeruvian Maoist terrorist leader (1934–2021)
- Rubén Bladesb. 1948PAPanamanian musician (born 1948)
- Nemesio Oseguera Cervantesb. 1966MXnot in their usual nameMexican drug lord (1966–2026)
- Rubén Sosab. 1966UYUruguayan footballer
- Rubén Barajab. 1975ESSpanish footballer
- Rubénb. 1985ESSpanish footballer
- Fernando Gagob. 1986ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player and manager
- Rubén Pardob. 1992ESSpanish soccer player
- Rúben Vezob. 1994PTPortuguese footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rubén mean, and where does it come from?
- Reuben (Biblical character and tribe) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Rubén a male or female name?
- Rubén is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Rubén have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 211 thousand people named Rubén in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruben.
- What are other forms of the name Rubén?
- In the etymology graph, Reuben, Reuven and Rouben are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Rubén?
- In Spain, the national register counted 131,134 people named Rubén, about 1 in 381 residents.
- How common is Rubén compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Rubén is the 43rd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rubén?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rub%C3%A9nThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rubén” — the 43rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.