Rui
- #9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- #2,641 for boys in 2025, 49 births
- Given to boys 91.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 21 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 887since 1967
Rui over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #9,457 | 10 | #2,641 | 49 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #2,737 | 47 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #2,962 | 42 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #3,362 | 34 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | — | #5,106 | 18 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | — | #4,890 | 19 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,866 | 19 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | — | #7,559 | 10 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,792 | 27 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,359 | 13 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | — | #4,145 | 24 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,808 | 19 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #4,865 | 18 |
| 2005 | — | #7,640 | 9 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
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| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,956 | 15 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,787 | 16 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,965 | 15 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,897 | 15 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,375 | 19 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,946 | 13 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,134 | 21 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,050 | 21 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,659 | 13 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1967
The first year at least five boys were named Rui! It came in at #3,966, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rui is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · boys
- California#1,364 · 1 in 13,498
Best ever in a state: #264 in Massachusetts, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,364 | 13 | 1 in 13,498 |
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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.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 353 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #2,641)
- 929 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #2,641)
- 2,249 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #2,641)
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1974 at #2,050 (21 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 27,789
- Highest: 1 in 27,789 boys born in 2024 were named Rui (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,859 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,050 in 1974, was only 1 in 74,873 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 29.8% of all boys named Rui (264) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #3,966 (1967) | #3,966 |
| 1970s | 146 | #2,050 (1974) | #2,636 |
| 1980s | 105 | #2,787 (1983) | #4,358 |
| 1990s | 68 | #4,960 (1997) | #6,399 |
| 2000s | 123 | #4,145 (2008) | #6,684 |
| 2010s | 176 | #3,792 (2011) | #5,365 |
| 2020s | 264 | #2,288 (2024) | #2,927 |
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.
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