US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Ruby name popularity

Ruby has been given to 379,684 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1924, when 8,472 babies got the name, and its best rank was #32 in 1911.

In 2025, 3,569 babies were named Ruby (#170 in the country), 58% below the peak. That is up 3% from 2015.

Almost every Ruby is a girl.

An estimated 155K people named Ruby are alive in the US today, with a median age of 28.

It was a top-100 name in 45 of the 146 years on record.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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