Ruby

Where Ruby comes from

The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ruby
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #149 among girls — 92 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1911
    Peak, #22
    3,372 babies named Ruby — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1922
    Ruby Dee born
    American actress
  4. 1986
    Ruby Rose born
    Australian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist
  5. 2022
    The comeback
    Back to #62 after sinking to #401 in 1986.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Ruby Rose · Australian actor, model, DJ, and recording artist, born 1986
  • Ruby Dee · American actress, 1922–2014
  • Ruby Lin · Taiwanese actress, singer and producer, born 1976
  • Ruby Payne-Scott · Australian radio astronomer, 1912–1981
  • Ruby Bridges · American civil rights activist, born 1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.