Reuven
Reuven was given to 58 boys in 2025, #2,383 among boys’ names; 1,091 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Reuven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Reuven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Reuven mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Reuven is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Transliteration of Hebrew רְאוּבֵן
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Reuven?
#2,383 among boys’ names, 2025
Reuven rose from #3,071 in 2015 to #2,383 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 34.0 per million.
59 babies in 2024, the peak
Reuven peaked in 2024, when 59 boys were given it, #2,390 among boys’ names. The 58 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,383 | 34.0 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,390 | 34.2 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,164 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,042 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,903 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,538 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,478 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,584 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,203 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,346 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,071 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,101 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,590 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,978 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,869 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,640 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,016 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,019 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,941 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,471 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,690 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,229 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,237 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,747 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,384 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,128 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,965 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,155 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,191 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,146 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,218 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,373 | 5.7 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,518 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,297 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,297 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,092 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,124 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,697 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,757 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,046 | 8.7 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,198 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,175 | 5.5 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,568 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,760 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,610 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,553 | 6.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,319 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,342 | 11.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,857 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,290 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,237 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,533 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Reuven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Reuven has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Reuven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Reuven, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,091 Americans ever recorded as Reuven. The median Reuven alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 996 people named Reuven (5 women and girls, 991 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 794 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 79 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 162 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 329 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 490 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Reuven born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 23 | #361 | 6.0× |
| New York | 22 | #682 | 7.0× |
Where Reuven is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Reuven is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 7.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Reuven with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,550 babies since 1880, Reuven is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 194 babies (30%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Reuven
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Reuven and names like it
- Compare Reuven and RevanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sReuven peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Reuven since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Reuven: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Reuven.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Reuven alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.