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 |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#340 · 1 in 1,302
- Wisconsin#724 · 1 in 3,384
- Minnesota#762 · 1 in 3,555
- Colorado#772 · 1 in 3,789
- Ohio#814 · 1 in 4,254
Best ever in a state: #340 in Utah, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #340 | 13 | 1 in 1,302 |
| Wisconsin | #724 | 6 | 1 in 3,384 |
| Minnesota | #762 | 6 | 1 in 3,555 |
| Colorado | #772 | 6 | 1 in 3,789 |
| Ohio | #814 | 11 | 1 in 4,254 |
| Indiana | #826 | 7 | 1 in 4,020 |
| Missouri | #918 | 5 | 1 in 4,758 |
| Arizona | #945 | 6 | 1 in 4,674 |
| Illinois | #953 | 9 | 1 in 4,993 |
| Virginia | #1,055 | 6 | 1 in 5,674 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,107 | 7 | 1 in 6,619 |
| Tennessee | #1,179 | 5 | 1 in 6,404 |
| North Carolina | #1,270 | 6 | 1 in 7,703 |
| California | #1,411 | 17 | 1 in 9,745 |
| New York | #1,414 | 9 | 1 in 8,734 |
| Texas | #1,425 | 17 | 1 in 9,610 |
| Georgia | #1,538 | 5 | 1 in 9,102 |
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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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 8,618 of them was named Rue, which outranked 93.0% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 101,346 of them was named Rue, which outranked 61.9% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,241Zayvon18
- #5,241Zolan18
- #5,241Zyden18
- #5,443Rue17
- #5,443Aadhvik17
- #5,443Abdalla17
- #5,443Abhinav17
- #5,659Aadhiran16
- #5,659Abhyant16
- #5,659Abran16
Tied with 215 names at #5,443; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.