Ruston
- #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 20 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 962since 1948
Ruston over time
Rank among boys' names. Ruston has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,539 | 52 |
| 2024 | #3,001 | 41 |
| 2023 | #2,895 | 43 |
| 2022 | #3,003 | 41 |
| 2021 | #3,180 | 37 |
| 2020 | #3,202 | 35 |
| 2019 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #3,586 | 30 |
| 2016 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #3,079 | 17 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #2,379 | 20 |
| 1978 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ruston! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1954, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ruston is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#672 · 1 in 3,188
- Texas#2,080 · 1 in 25,007
Best ever in a state: #466 in Mississippi, 2023.
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| Louisiana | #672 | 6 | 1 in 3,188 |
| Texas | #2,080 | 7 | 1 in 25,007 |
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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 Ruston
- 462 spots since 2024 (#3,001 → #2,539)
- 663 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #2,539)
- 1,443 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #2,539)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1979 at #2,379 (20 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,848 boys born in 2025 were named Ruston (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,379 in 1979, was only 1 in 86,077 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.9% of all boys named Ruston (249) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 31 | #2,969 (1956) | #3,516 |
| 1960s | 54 | #2,673 (1963) | #3,240 |
| 1970s | 108 | #2,379 (1979) | #3,385 |
| 1980s | 130 | #2,569 (1981) | #3,616 |
| 1990s | 107 | #4,476 (1991) | #5,281 |
| 2000s | 98 | #5,334 (2009) | #7,434 |
| 2010s | 180 | #3,586 (2017) | #5,651 |
| 2020s | 249 | #2,539 (2025) | #2,970 |
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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