Rui

Where Rui comes from

The dictionaries list Rui as a given name — a male given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1967
    First appearance
    #3,966 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Peak, #2,050
    21 babies named Rui — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,153.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
  • A male given name from Portuguese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Rui hasn't yet.

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.