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Rubin

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Rubin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 384th, in 1907.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
130.00% of boys
Peak year
1923147 births
Best rank
#384in 1907
Since 1880
7,038people given the name
Babies named Rubin, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

7,038 boys have been named Rubin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 147 births.

The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 147 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Rubin
1880s78
1890s115
1900s234
1910s1,011
1920s1,121
1930s654
1940s611
1950s716
1960s589
1970s559
1980s418
1990s351
2000s280
2010s216
2020s85

In 1923, its biggest year

Rubin was the 505th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.

Names that rose and fell with Rubin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.