Rubin

Where Rubin comes from

The dictionaries list Rubin as a given name — a male given name from Hebrew, of rather rare usage, variant of Reuben — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #482 among boys — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1907
    Peak, #381
    35 babies named Rubin — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1937
    Rubin Carter born
    American boxer
  4. 1987
    Rubin Okotie born
    Nigerian-Pakistani-Austrian footballer
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,436.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, of rather rare usage, variant of Reuben.
Namesakes
  • Rubin Carter · American boxer, 1937–2014
  • Rubin Okotie · Nigerian-Pakistani-Austrian footballer, born 1987
  • Rubin Colwill · Welsh association football player, born 2002
  • Rubin Goldmark · American composer, pianist and educator, 1872–1936
  • Rubin Seigers · Belgian association football player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.