Ruvim
Ruvim was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,363 among boys’ names; 666 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ruvim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ruvim?
#4,363 among boys’ names, 2025
Ruvim rose from #6,244 in 2015 to #4,363 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 14.1 per million.
34 babies in 2008, the peak
Ruvim peaked in 2008, when 34 boys were given it, #3,331 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,363 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,537 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,977 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,588 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,572 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,391 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,041 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,521 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 15 | #6,010 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,279 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,244 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,505 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,937 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,926 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,191 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,998 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,401 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,331 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,869 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,367 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,793 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,557 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,077 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,752 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,082 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,129 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,655 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,272 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,628 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,523 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,228 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,485 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,643 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,259 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ruvim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ruvim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ruvim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ruvim, and how old are they?
An estimated 656 Americans named Ruvim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 735 people named Ruvim (0 women and girls, 735 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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.
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 Ruvim born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 7 | #880 | 14.3× |
Where Ruvim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ruvim is most over-represented in Washington: since 1992 it was given 14.3 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 Ruvim with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ruvim
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 Ruvim and names like it
- Compare Ruvim and HumzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRuvim peaked in 2008.
- Washington’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ruvim since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Ruvim.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ruvim alive today were born 1997-2012.
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