Ruben
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ruben är ett bibliskt namn, på hebreiska en anspelning på ordet ’se’ (jfr Första Moseboken 29:32)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ruβen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruben 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.
- 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 Ruben 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 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)
Ruben är ett bibliskt namn, på hebreiska en anspelning på ordet ’se’ (jfr Första Moseboken 29:32). Reuben är en engelsk form. Ruben är den äldste av patriarken Jakobs tolv söner i Gamla testamentet. Det har blivit ett populärt namn de senaste årtiondena. I den rikssvenska almanackan 17 maj och i den finlandssvenska 14 april.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruben 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); 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)
Ruben is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Biblique; origine hébraïque, signifie « c'est un fils ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du hébreu Re'uven, « voici un fils ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ecco, un figlio!
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Russian, "partitioned."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latin, a male given name from Hebrew, notably borne by the eldest of the twelve sons of Iacōbus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ruben Santiago-Hudsonb. 1956USAmerican actor and screenwriter
- Ruben Östlundb. 1974SESwedish film director and screenwriter (born 1974)
- Ruben Fleischerb. 1974USAmerican film director
- Ruben Studdardb. 1978USAmerican singer
- Rúben Amorimb. 1985PTPortuguese professional football manager and former player
- Rúben Micaelb. 1986PTPortuguese footballer
- Ruben Loftus-Cheekb. 1996GBEnglish association football player (born 1996)
- Rúben Nevesb. 1997PTPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
- Rúben Diasb. 1997PTPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
- Ruben Vargasb. 1998CHSwiss association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 132 sources across 67 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 131K | #63 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 130K | #35 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 126K | #446 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 632 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 290 | #446 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 211 | #493 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- In which country does Ruben have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 211 thousand people named Ruben in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruben.
- Is Ruben a male or female name?
- Ruben 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ruben?
- In the etymology graph, Reuben, Reuven and Rouben are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Ruben mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ruben är ett bibliskt namn, på hebreiska en anspelning på ordet ’se’ (jfr Första Moseboken 29:32).
- How do you pronounce Ruben?
- A machine transcription gives /ruβen/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Ruben?
- In Spain, the national register counted 131,134 people named Ruben, about 1 in 381 residents.
- How common is Ruben compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Ruben is the 43rd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ruben?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rubenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ruben” — the 43rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.