Ruba
- #6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1919 · 8 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 518since 1919
Ruba over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Ruba has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
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| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 |
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First appearance
1919
The first year at least five girls were named Ruba! It came in at #3,452, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ruba is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Ruba in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 3,433 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #6,838)
- 2,708 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #6,838)
- 3,310 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #6,838)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1919 at #3,452 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1920, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 92,264
- Highest: 1 in 92,264 girls born in 1996 were named Ruba (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,452 in 1919, was only 1 in 141,265 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 24.7% of all girls named Ruba (128) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 8 | #3,452 (1919) | #3,452 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,973 (1925) | #4,973 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,550 (1930) | #4,550 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #9,750 (1978) | #9,750 |
| 1980s | 69 | #6,371 (1982) | #8,962 |
| 1990s | 128 | #5,065 (1996) | #7,102 |
| 2000s | 122 | #6,489 (2004) | #9,046 |
| 2010s | 115 | #7,342 (2019) | #9,765 |
| 2020s | 61 | #6,838 (2025) | #10,184 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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