Given name · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Rúben
Rúben is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Rúben comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Rúben developed from Ruben.
Rúben’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Rúben developed from the Latin form Ruben. In Portuguese usage, Rúben has a conventional equivalent in the German form Ruben.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rúben
- Rúben DiasPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
- Rúben NevesPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
- Rúben MicaelPortuguese footballerborn 1986
- Rúben SemedoPortuguese footballerborn 1994
- Rúben VinagrePortuguese association football playerborn 1999
- Ruben GuerreiroPortuguese cyclistborn 1994
- Rúben PintoPortuguese footballerborn 1992
- Rúben LameirasPortuguese association football playerborn 1994
- KuraPortuguese DJ and record producerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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