Reuben popularity

[Linny88]

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

@Linny88 I’m in Wales.
I like Idris, we don’t get many here any more, it’s refreshing to hear!

Well Reuben Idris is very nice and I think flows well. Then you get a bit Jewish and s bit Welsh in there.

But you never ever get to use your middle name..

If you look at name stats the current trend is for parents to try & be as unique as possible. In previous generations the top 10 names would be the majority of the classroom whereas now there are thousands more names registered a year & even the top 5 are a fraction of the number they used to be.

I can’t really understand the trend of wanting to demonstrate how different you are via your child - but I’m about as unfashionable as it gets (& autistic) so trends in general prob aren’t for me !

Anyway so no Reuben is not popular at all. Might you meet another in your lifetime then yes - but my husband has taught in 15 schools & come across 2.

Hi, I don’t need the name to be unique, but I have a name that was in the top 30 when I was born that then became very popular and has remained in the top 10- 15 for the past 25 years....so I just don’t want to choose a name where there will be 5 of them in one class. I remember most boys in my year at school being called Matthew, Andrew or Daniel....I’m wondering if Noah, Jacob and Reuben will be the new ones of those!

I can’t really understand the trend of wanting to demonstrate how different you are via your child -

Wow, that's quite an assumption! Lots of adults choose less popular names for their kids because they hated having a trendy 1970s name that they not only had to share with several others but that now sounds dated (eg Clare, Sharon, Tracy, Steve etc etc).

We chose classic but unpopular names for our children. We love them. But in no way are we trying to demonstrate anything, let alone how different we are .

There are SO many lovely interesting names to choose from!

I know four little Reubens 3 months to 3yrs, London/Surrey area. Lovely name but I think it’s fairly popular around here at least.

This is the name I want to pick for my son- but I'm not even pregnant or in a relationship yet!

Go with what you want OP, nevermind if it's popular or not.