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Reuben popularity

33 replies

Linny88 · 06/05/2019 22:55

I’ve always loved the name Reuben and my husband is Jewish so we feel it’s a good name for us. However, I’ve seen lots of comments on here that it’s very popular. We live in London and I work with under 5s and have only heard of one child called Reuben (I’ve been working in London with kids for the past 8 years). I’m really interested to know how popular it is where you live and most importantly what area of the country it is. It’s only 49 on the popularity rankings so I’m wondering why I keep hearing that it’s popular. My friend in Manchester says she feels it’s more common in the north west

The other name we love is Idris as my mother’s welsh....also interested to know if people prefer that to Reuben

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Sunshiness · 07/05/2019 08:04

My DNephew's name Smile In London. Also know another at a baby group. If you're concerned about popularity I'd go with Idris instead, lovely name!

MamaofAHH · 07/05/2019 08:01

I know 2 Reuben's, one is my cousin and is a grown man in his 40's (we are Jewish too) and a boy of 7. We are in the south east. I've only seen it popular on here.

Cookit · 07/05/2019 07:32

I like it. It’s not unusual enough to seem out there or hard to spell but similarly you don’t meet that many. South East here and I wouldn’t be surprised to meet a little Reuben but I haven’t yet (nursery, baby groups, friends of friends’ children etc).

rosebb1 · 07/05/2019 06:12

I have a Ruben. Only know of one other at school...at the moment.

Womble75 · 07/05/2019 04:11

South East - I have a Reuben - no others around here that I know of. I love the name (obviously!) 😊

Mintypea5 · 07/05/2019 03:59

I know a couple? South west here. I love idris as a name! My uncle was called idris and I always felt like it was such a cool name

1Wanda1 · 07/05/2019 03:49

I'm also in the south east, and find Reuben to be quite a popular name here. Think it's become cool.

Rosesaredead · 07/05/2019 03:21

I have a Reuben and I only know one other Reuben. I'm in the South East