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Ruben Ranking

In the United States, the name Ruben is the 9,776th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

United States Ruben migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Ruben Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Julius Ruben, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1738 2
Ruben Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Harris Ruben, who landed in Texas in 1850-1906 2
  • Charles Ruben, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1876 2
  • Leonard Ruben, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1880

Contemporary Notables of the name Ruben (post 1700) +

  • Albert Ruben (b. 1918), prominent artist in New Orleans
  • Henrik Ruben Genz (b. 1959), Danish Academy Award nominated film director
  • Major-General Ernst Ruben Lagus (1896-1959), Finnish General Officer Commanding 2nd Division (1945-1947) 3
  • Ruben Enrique Douglas (1979-2024), American-Panamanian professional basketball player
  • Ruben Ostlund (b. 1974), Swedish filmmaker best known for his work on Force Majeure (2014), The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022), winning awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the later earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, with the film itself being nominated for Best Picture
  • Ruben Östlund (b. 1974), Swedish filmmaker best known for his work on Force Majeure (2014), The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022), winning awards at the Cannes Film Festival,the later earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, with the film itself being nominated for Best Picture
  • Ruben Östlund (b. 1974), Swedish filmmaker best known for his work on Force Majeure (2014), The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022), winning awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the later earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, with the film itself being nominated for Best Picture
  • Ruben Francisco Ortega Jr., American politician, Arizona state representative
  • Ruben Altunyan (1939-2021), Armenian composer and conductor
  • Ruben T. Reyes (1939-2021), Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2007 to 2009
  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. Generals of World War II. (Retrieved 2011, October 5) Ernst Lagus. Retrieved from http://generals.dk/general/Lagus/Ernst_Ruben/Finland.html
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