boys:
895 births since 1893
#3694 (19th percentile)
overall:
895 births since 1893
#6844 (12th percentile)
The name Reuel is the #6,844 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 895 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 11.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,694 (19.4% percentile) for all time with 895 births since 1893.
Reuel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (first recorded for boys in 1893). Birth data for Reuel is available in 97 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Reuel reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #517) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 50 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Reuel ranks #887 for boys (2.6% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 31.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Reuel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Reuel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.1% confident that Reuel is pronounced as RUE-ehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUE-uhl, at 37.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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