Rubi
#1,076 for girls in 2025, 225 births · Last seen for boys in 1992 at #7,422
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 716 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,051since 1957
Rubi over time
Rank among girls' names. Rubi has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,076 | 225 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,086 | 227 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,179 | 203 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,059 | 240 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,211 | 196 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,308 | 168 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,251 | 186 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,378 | 163 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,379 | 167 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,300 | 184 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,337 | 177 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,261 | 191 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,264 | 188 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,206 | 203 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,135 | 216 | — | |
| 2010 | #877 | 303 | — | |
| 2009 | #857 | 325 | — | |
| 2008 | #580 | 531 | — | |
| 2007 | #715 | 409 | — | |
| 2006 | #616 | 471 | — | |
| 2005 | #431 | 716 | — | |
| 2004 | #613 | 448 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 123 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,338 | 145 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,368 | 139 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,533 | 118 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,647 | 101 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,373 | 125 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,395 | 121 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,269 | 137 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,151 | 152 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,199 | 147 | — | |
| 1993 | #938 | 201 | — | |
| 1992 | #921 | 211 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #899 | 216 | — | |
| 1990 | #731 | 285 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #1,204 | 134 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,987 | 34 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,340 | 25 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,671 | 33 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,311 | 32 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,665 | 27 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
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| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rubi! It came in at #4,536, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rubi is popular in 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#273 · 1 in 1,619
- California#369 · 1 in 2,100
- Massachusetts#616 · 1 in 5,533
- Arizona#658 · 1 in 4,377
- Illinois#674 · 1 in 5,608
Best ever in a state: #212 in California, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #273 | 85 | 1 in 1,619 |
| California | #369 | 125 | 1 in 2,100 |
| Massachusetts | #616 | 7 | 1 in 5,533 |
| Arizona | #658 | 6 | 1 in 4,377 |
| Illinois | #674 | 14 | 1 in 5,608 |
| Washington | #681 | 6 | 1 in 5,151 |
| Florida | #947 | 9 | 1 in 8,792 |
| New York | #1,185 | 10 | 1 in 12,206 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rubi
- 10 spots since 2024 (#1,086 → #1,076)
- 232 spots since 2020 (#1,308 → #1,076)
- 261 spots since 2015 (#1,337 → #1,076)
- Biggest jump: 948 spots in 2004 (#1,561 → #613)
- Biggest drop: 277 spots in 2009 (#580 → #857)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2005 at #431 (716 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2004–2010
- Highest: 1 in 2,581 girls born in 2005 were named Rubi (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,143 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 37.8% of all girls named Rubi (3,425) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 8 | #4,536 (1957) | #4,536 |
| 1960s | 13 | #5,456 (1969) | #5,998 |
| 1970s | 257 | #2,311 (1972) | #2,961 |
| 1980s | 415 | #1,204 (1989) | #2,764 |
| 1990s | 1,696 | #731 (1990) | #1,152 |
| 2000s | 3,425 | #431 (2005) | #961 |
| 2010s | 1,978 | #877 (2010) | #1,239 |
| 2020s | 1,259 | #1,059 (2022) | #1,153 |
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.
Rubi in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 6,662 of them was named Rubi, which outranked 95.2% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 256,755 of them was named Rubi, which outranked 38.7% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,382Zoe9
- #5,382Zong9
- #5,382Zuriel9
- #5,823Rubi8
- #5,823Aaren8
- #5,823Aaric8
- #5,823Abayomi8
- #6,415Abdias7
- #6,415Abdulmalik7
- #6,415Abdurrahman7
Tied with 591 names at #5,823; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.