Ruger
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #13,453 · #1,547 for boys in 2025, 111 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 166 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,356since 1993
Ruger over time
Rank among boys' names. Ruger has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #1,547 | 111 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,012 | 76 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,650 | 104 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,589 | 111 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,372 | 134 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,361 | 130 |
| 2019 | — | #1,271 | 147 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,335 | 135 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,141 | 166 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #1,149 | 167 |
| 2015 | — | #1,287 | 138 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,188 | 155 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,405 | 119 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,407 | 118 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,620 | 94 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,401 | 53 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,515 | 50 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,564 | 48 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,524 | 29 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,902 | 36 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,838 | 22 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,670 | 23 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,676 | 16 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,668 | 13 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,535 | 10 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ruger! It came in at #6,816, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1994, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Ruger is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#290 · 1 in 1,249
- Oklahoma#340 · 1 in 1,381
- Idaho#346 · 1 in 1,317
- Nebraska#440 · 1 in 1,953
- Utah#460 · 1 in 2,258
Best ever in a state: #210 in Montana, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #290 | 6 | 1 in 1,249 |
| Oklahoma | #340 | 14 | 1 in 1,381 |
| Idaho | #346 | 6 | 1 in 1,317 |
| Nebraska | #440 | 5 | 1 in 1,953 |
| Utah | #460 | 9 | 1 in 2,258 |
| Missouri | #492 | 11 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Kentucky | #510 | 7 | 1 in 3,091 |
| Arkansas | #541 | 5 | 1 in 2,743 |
| Kansas | #551 | 5 | 1 in 3,009 |
| Iowa | #559 | 5 | 1 in 2,972 |
| Indiana | #819 | 6 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Ohio | #906 | 8 | 1 in 7,295 |
| Tennessee | #932 | 5 | 1 in 7,254 |
| Illinois | #1,180 | 6 | 1 in 10,322 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,211 | 5 | 1 in 11,642 |
| Texas | #1,275 | 13 | 1 in 13,551 |
| Florida | #1,701 | 5 | 1 in 19,335 |
| California | #2,037 | 7 | 1 in 30,815 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Ruger
- 465 spots since 2024 (#2,012 → #1,547)
- 186 spots since 2020 (#1,361 → #1,547)
- 260 spots since 2015 (#1,287 → #1,547)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2017 at #1,141 (166 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,150 boys born in 2017 were named Ruger (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,388 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 55.3% of all boys named Ruger (1,303) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 71 | #4,668 (1997) | #5,712 |
| 2000s | 316 | #2,401 (2009) | #3,461 |
| 2010s | 1,303 | #1,141 (2017) | #1,390 |
| 2020s | 666 | #1,361 (2020) | #1,589 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ruger in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 11,150 of them was named Ruger, which outranked 92.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,138Lucien167
- #1,138Milton167
- #1,138Urijah167
- #1,141Ruger166
- #1,141Aarush166
- #1,141Callahan166
- #1,141Cashton166
- #1,149Baker165
- #1,149Kylo165
- #1,149Murphy165
Tied with 7 names at #1,141; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.