Ruthanne
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 1946 · 90 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,685since 1918
Ruthanne over time
Rank among girls' names. Ruthanne has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1983 | #3,949 | 19 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 |
| 1972 | #2,680 | 26 |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 |
| 1967 | #2,212 | 29 |
| 1966 | #1,736 | 42 |
| 1965 | #1,595 | 49 |
| 1964 | #1,781 | 43 |
| 1963 | #1,981 | 35 |
| 1962 | #1,540 | 53 |
| 1961 | #1,720 | 44 |
| 1960 | #1,764 | 41 |
| 1959 | #1,466 | 54 |
| 1958 | #1,985 | 31 |
| 1957 | #1,904 | 33 |
| 1956 | #1,796 | 35 |
| 1955 | #1,774 | 35 |
| 1954 | #1,949 | 29 |
| 1953 | #1,931 | 28 |
| 1952 | #1,487 | 42 |
| 1951 | #1,665 | 33 |
| 1950 | #1,276 | 52 |
| 1949 | #1,183 | 59 |
| 1948 | #1,313 | 49 |
| 1947 | #1,150 | 61 |
| 1946 | #874 | 90 |
| 1945 | #1,060 | 54 |
| 1944 | #874 | 76 |
| 1943 | #1,036 | 59 |
| 1942 | #897 | 76 |
| 1941 | #986 | 55 |
| 1940 | #963 | 55 |
| 1939 | #1,022 | 48 |
| 1938 | #1,288 | 32 |
| 1937 | #1,219 | 35 |
| 1936 | #2,032 | 15 |
| 1935 | #2,439 | 12 |
| 1934 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
| 1932 | #2,365 | 13 |
| 1931 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 |
| 1929 | #2,301 | 14 |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 |
| 1927 | #2,552 | 13 |
| 1926 | #2,872 | 11 |
| 1925 | #2,489 | 14 |
| 1924 | #2,308 | 16 |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 |
| 1922 | #2,780 | 12 |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ruthanne! It came in at #3,512, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ruthanne is popular in 1964
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#552 · 1 in 10,039
- New York#1,257 · 1 in 26,782
Best ever in a state: #299 in Massachusetts, 1944.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #552 | 5 | 1 in 10,039 |
| New York | #1,257 | 6 | 1 in 26,782 |
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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 Ruthanne
- 607 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #6,325)
- Same as 2020 (#6,325)
- 652 spots since 2015 (#6,977 → #6,325)
- Biggest jump: 186 spots in 1946 (#1,060 → #874)
- Biggest drop: 276 spots in 1947 (#874 → #1,150)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1946 at #874 (90 births)
- Births halved by 1951, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1940–1942
- Highest: 1 in 17,459 girls born in 1946 were named Ruthanne (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.6% of all girls named Ruthanne (634) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 19 | #2,813 (1919) | #3,163 |
| 1920s | 117 | #2,301 (1929) | #2,909 |
| 1930s | 197 | #1,022 (1939) | #2,159 |
| 1940s | 634 | #874 (1946) | #1,034 |
| 1950s | 372 | #1,276 (1950) | #1,723 |
| 1960s | 386 | #1,540 (1962) | #1,951 |
| 1970s | 179 | #2,680 (1972) | #3,818 |
| 1980s | 206 | #3,066 (1981) | #4,048 |
| 1990s | 160 | #5,065 (1996) | #5,841 |
| 2000s | 172 | #5,419 (2003) | #7,087 |
| 2010s | 144 | #6,729 (2013) | #8,085 |
| 2020s | 99 | #5,984 (2022) | #6,911 |
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.
Ruthanne in 1964
Top girls' names in 1964
More about 1964
girls
1,894,855 girls got a published name in 1964; 1 in 44,066 of them was named Ruthanne, which outranked 77.2% of the 7,806 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,747Twanna44
- #1,747Unknown44
- #1,747Zelma44
- #1,781Ruthanne43
- #1,781Agatha43
- #1,781Alene43
- #1,781Carlyn43
- #1,803Adelina42
- #1,803Charline42
- #1,803Conni42
Tied with 21 names at #1,781; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.