Rue
#1,318 for girls in 2025, 169 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 83.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 188 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,565since 1896
Rue over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,318 | 169 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #1,240 | 188 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #1,253 | 184 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #1,292 | 183 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #1,739 | 118 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #3,665 | 41 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,455 | 32 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | — | |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,317 | 13 | #2,332 | 10 |
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| 1935 | #2,575 | 11 | — | |
| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | #2,542 | 9 |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | #2,465 | 10 |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 | #2,864 | 8 |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 | #3,697 | 6 |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 | #2,703 | 10 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | #3,385 | 7 |
| 1925 | #2,778 | 12 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #3,125 | 10 | #3,467 | 7 |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | #2,347 | 13 |
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| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | — | #2,385 | 12 | |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 | #2,260 | 13 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 | #1,900 | 16 |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | #2,543 | 10 |
| 1915 | #2,688 | 10 | #3,082 | 7 |
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| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 | — | |
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| 1906 | — | #1,253 | 5 | |
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| 1903 | #1,592 | 6 | — | |
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| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 | — | |
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| 1896 | #1,583 | 5 | #1,101 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rue! It came in at #1,583, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1896–1899, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rue is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#560 · 1 in 2,418
- Pennsylvania#950 · 1 in 5,420
- Ohio#1,147 · 1 in 6,944
- Illinois#1,187 · 1 in 6,914
- California#1,446 · 1 in 10,266
Best ever in a state: #340 in Utah, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #560 | 7 | 1 in 2,418 |
| Pennsylvania | #950 | 9 | 1 in 5,420 |
| Ohio | #1,147 | 7 | 1 in 6,944 |
| Illinois | #1,187 | 7 | 1 in 6,914 |
| California | #1,446 | 17 | 1 in 10,266 |
| Texas | #2,324 | 8 | 1 in 19,435 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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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 Rue
- 78 spots since 2024 (#1,240 → #1,318)
- 1,150 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #1,318)
- 3,663 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #1,318)
- Debuted 1896
- Peaked 2024 at #1,240 (188 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,618 girls born in 2024 were named Rue (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,510 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 58.3% of all girls named Rue (912) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1970, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,583 (1896) | #1,583 |
| 1900s | 13 | #1,561 (1900) | #1,577 |
| 1910s | 41 | #1,981 (1912) | #3,214 |
| 1920s | 75 | #2,778 (1925) | #3,594 |
| 1930s | 65 | #2,317 (1937) | #3,346 |
| 1940s | 64 | #3,030 (1941) | #3,958 |
| 1950s | 72 | #3,325 (1954) | #4,507 |
| 1960s | 13 | #4,865 (1962) | #5,716 |
| 1970s | 11 | #8,324 (1971) | #8,443 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 294 | #3,479 (2017) | #5,426 |
| 2020s | 912 | #1,240 (2024) | #1,552 |
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.
Rue in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 13,906 of them was named Rue, which outranked 90.2% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,730Khelani119
- #1,730Malky119
- #1,730Milly119
- #1,739Rue118
- #1,739Alanis118
- #1,739Asiya118
- #1,739Camellia118
- #1,750Ameerah117
- #1,750Elly117
- #1,750Honor117
Tied with 10 names at #1,739; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 134,576 of them was named Rue, which outranked 55.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,032Zubayr14
- #6,032Zylen14
- #6,032Zyron14
- #6,335Rue13
- #6,335Aaran13
- #6,335Aboubacar13
- #6,335Abrahm13
- #6,698Aadam12
- #6,698Aadish12
- #6,698Aamari12
Tied with 362 names at #6,335; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.