Ruthie

Where Ruthie comes from

From Ruth + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ruthie
  • Vowel-ended
Ruthie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1935
    Peak, #313
    396 babies named Ruthie, its best rank.
  3. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #732.
  4. 1964
    Ruthie Foster born
    American singer
  5. 1967
    Ruthie Bolton born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Ruth.
Namesakes
  • Ruthie Bolton · American basketball player, born 1967
  • Ruthie Foster · American singer, born 1964
  • Ruthie Matthes · American cyclist, born 1965
  • Ruthie Morris · guitarist and songwriter for alternative rock band Magnapop, born 1964
  • Ruthie Ann Miles · American actress and singer, born 1983

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.