girls:
655 births since 1925
#5061 (11th percentile)
boys:
115.3k births since 1880
#276 (94th percentile)
overall:
116k births since 1880
#612 (92nd percentile)
The name Ruben is the #612 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 115,956 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #276 (94.0% percentile) for all time with 115,301 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,061 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 655 births since 1925.
Ruben has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1925 for girls).
The name Ruben has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ruben reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 77.4% percentile (ranked #175) with 860 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 860 births per million (ranked 77.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ruben ranks #433 for boys (52.5% percentile) with 342 births per million, which is 39.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ruben reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #769) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruben".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ruben. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.1% confident that Ruben is pronounced as RUE-buhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUE-behn, at 15.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like R UW1 B AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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