Ruben
435
Babies in 2024
+21%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 540
-8%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ruben
Ruben appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #126 with 435 boys registered in England & Wales.
Ruben reached its peak in 2021, when 540 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #110 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 435 represents 81% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 8,214 boys have been officially registered with the name Ruben in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 4,700 boys were registered with the name, starting from 361 in 2014 and ending at 435 in 2024.