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How popular is “Ruben” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ruben” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ruben” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ruben” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ruben” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ruben” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ruben” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ruben” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 30 0.000148895 30 -100%
1881 21 0.000108984 21 -100%
1882 34 0.000153476 34 -100%
1883 30 0.000138283 30 -100%
1884 28 0.000115008 28 -100%
1885 28 0.000116253 28 -100%
1886 40 0.000156669 40 -100%
1887 34 0.000137434 34 -100%
1888 21 0.000070123 21 -100%
1889 33 0.000114208 33 -100%
1890 25 0.000082946 25 -100%
1891 25 0.000087207 25 -100%
1892 44 0.000131589 44 -100%
1893 41 0.000126067 41 -100%
1894 33 0.000097434 33 -100%
1895 37 0.000105407 37 -100%
1896 49 0.000137069 49 -100%
1897 42 0.000121052 42 -100%
1898 45 0.000117969 45 -100%
1899 32 0.00009433 32 -100%
1900 50 0.000111047 50 -100%
1901 35 0.000101211 35 -100%
1902 45 0.000116359 45 -100%
1903 50 0.000131165 50 -100%
1904 38 0.000094179 38 -100%
1905 41 0.000096716 41 -100%
1906 52 0.000121367 52 -100%
1907 62 0.000133222 62 -100%
1908 60 0.000122788 60 -100%
1909 71 0.000138882 71 -100%
1910 83 0.000140509 83 -100%
1911 59 0.000091575 59 -100%
1912 134 0.000135619 134 -100%
1913 154 0.000135431 154 -100%
1914 199 0.000140503 199 -100%
1915 256 0.000139706 256 -100%
1916 237 0.000122518 237 -100%
1917 289 0.000144014 289 -100%
1918 286 0.00013173 286 -100%
1919 292 0.000138373 292 -100%
1920 336 0.000148499 336 -100%
1921 357 0.000152923 357 -100%
1922 361 0.0001577 361 -100%
1923 368 0.000159828 368 -100%
1924 398 0.000167114 398 -100%
1925 432 0.000185145 5 427 -98%
1926 440 0.000191646 440 -100%
1927 479 0.000206523 479 -100%
1928 498 0.000220263 7 491 -97%
1929 485 0.000221243 485 -100%
1930 521 0.000234338 5 516 -98%
1931 465 0.000220967 465 -100%
1932 475 0.000224981 6 469 -97%
1933 405 0.000202556 7 398 -97%
1934 443 0.000213307 443 -100%
1935 489 0.000233982 489 -100%
1936 488 0.000234889 7 481 -97%
1937 496 0.000232791 7 489 -97%
1938 455 0.000205643 10 445 -96%
1939 450 0.000204226 450 -100%
1940 447 0.000194121 5 442 -98%
1941 468 0.000192085 7 461 -97%
1942 514 0.000188153 514 -100%
1943 544 0.000192733 544 -100%
1944 513 0.000190701 6 507 -98%
1945 560 0.000211089 560 -100%
1946 654 0.000204675 6 648 -98%
1947 737 0.00020459 737 -100%
1948 913 0.000264445 5 908 -99%
1949 1007 0.000288971 9 998 -98%
1950 1041 0.000297143 15 1026 -97%
1951 1050 0.000285036 10 1040 -98%
1952 1101 0.000289889 6 1095 -99%
1953 1208 0.00031347 7 1201 -99%
1954 1273 0.000319792 16 1257 -97%
1955 1305 0.000325025 11 1294 -98%
1956 1386 0.00033616 15 1371 -98%
1957 1387 0.00033007 6 1381 -99%
1958 1376 0.000332857 5 1371 -99%
1959 1368 0.000329005 9 1359 -99%
1960 1369 0.000329577 11 1358 -98%
1961 1396 0.000337011 10 1386 -99%
1962 1389 0.000344206 10 1379 -99%
1963 1265 0.00031959 5 1260 -99%
1964 1357 0.000349058 9 1348 -99%
1965 1155 0.000318581 6 1149 -99%
1966 1201 0.000345546 6 1195 -99%
1967 1182 0.00034817 8 1174 -99%
1968 1145 0.000338917 7 1138 -99%
1969 1248 0.000359103 12 1236 -98%
1970 1339 0.000371273 13 1326 -98%
1971 1334 0.000388654 11 1323 -98%
1972 1337 0.000425391 16 1321 -98%
1973 1321 0.000437869 12 1309 -98%
1974 1393 0.000458224 11 1382 -98%
1975 1386 0.000459033 10 1376 -99%
1976 1372 0.000452164 11 1361 -98%
1977 1379 0.000434126 14 1365 -98%
1978 1386 0.000436691 6 1380 -99%
1979 1413 0.000424707 16 1397 -98%
1980 1508 0.000437799 21 1487 -97%
1981 1482 0.000428401 9 1473 -99%
1982 1485 0.000423323 13 1472 -98%
1983 1511 0.000436284 14 1497 -98%
1984 1390 0.000398423 16 1374 -98%
1985 1475 0.000413268 21 1454 -97%
1986 1389 0.000390489 7 1382 -99%
1987 1536 0.000426002 9 1527 -99%
1988 1610 0.000435719 16 1594 -98%
1989 1614 0.000419826 16 1598 -98%
1990 1755 0.000444025 11 1744 -99%
1991 1750 0.000449263 18 1732 -98%
1992 1814 0.000472239 9 1805 -99%
1993 1760 0.000466809 11 1749 -99%
1994 1737 0.00046723 13 1724 -99%
1995 1703 0.000465027 6 1697 -99%
1996 1668 0.000457338 5 1663 -99%
1997 1600 0.000441288 5 1595 -99%
1998 1588 0.000431732 5 1583 -99%
1999 1649 0.000446416 12 1637 -99%
2000 1724 0.000456096 6 1718 -99%
2001 1736 0.000463751 1736 -100%
2002 1572 0.000420513 1572 -100%
2003 1655 0.000435261 1655 -100%
2004 1606 0.000420317 5 1601 -99%
2005 1471 0.00038259 5 1466 -99%
2006 1597 0.000403671 1597 -100%
2007 1479 0.000369964 1479 -100%
2008 1356 0.00034498 1356 -100%
2009 1205 0.000315431 6 1199 -99%
2010 1102 0.000298181 1102 -100%
2011 977 0.000267101 977 -100%
2012 959 0.00026221 959 -100%
2013 889 0.000243851 889 -100%
2014 893 0.000240936 893 -100%
2015 864 0.000233456 864 -100%
2016 801 0.000218334 801 -100%
2017 749 0.00020944 749 -100%
2018 753 0.00021417 753 -100%
2019 743 0.000214063 743 -100%
2020 636 0.000190386 636 -100%
2021 652 0.000192447 652 -100%
2022 669 0.000197746 669 -100%
2023 629 0.000189962 629 -100%
2024 607 0.000182364 607 -100%

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