Ruben

Ruben is the 11,281st most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,679 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 112,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,679
Rank: 11,281st
How common: 1 in 112,000
Per 100,000: 0.90

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Hebrew רְאוּבֵן.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ruben described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.9%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
Hispanic or Latino 11.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 9.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%

Surnames like Ruben

Also a first name

Ruben has been given to 117,207 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1992. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.