Reuven
- #2,363 for boys in 2025, 58 births
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,091since 1959
Reuven over time
Rank among boys' names. Reuven has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,363 | 58 |
| 2024 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #3,117 | 39 |
| 2022 | #3,003 | 41 |
| 2021 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #3,426 | 33 |
| 2018 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #3,293 | 34 |
| 2015 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 2014 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #3,792 | 27 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #3,321 | 26 |
| 2000 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
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| 1992 | #4,327 | 13 |
| 1991 | #3,224 | 19 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,277 | 18 |
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| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
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| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Reuven! It came in at #3,290, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Reuven is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#355 · 1 in 1,729
- New York#661 · 1 in 3,837
Best ever in a state: #355 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #355 | 23 | 1 in 1,729 |
| New York | #661 | 22 | 1 in 3,837 |
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See more about Reuven
- 142 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #2,363)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1974 at #2,277 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,201 boys born in 2024 were named Reuven (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,450 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,277 in 1974, was only 1 in 87,352 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.7% of all boys named Reuven (291) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 7 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,290 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 75 | #2,277 (1974) | #3,820 |
| 1980s | 98 | #2,641 (1987) | #3,864 |
| 1990s | 126 | #3,224 (1991) | #4,482 |
| 2000s | 218 | #3,075 (2000) | #4,180 |
| 2010s | 276 | #3,022 (2015) | #3,899 |
| 2020s | 291 | #2,363 (2025) | #2,703 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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