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How popular is “Rutha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rutha” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Rutha” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Rutha” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rutha” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rutha” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Rutha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rutha” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1884 7 0.000028752 7 100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1893 9 0.000027673 9 100%
1895 8 0.000022791 8 100%
1896 9 0.000025176 9 100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 100%
1899 10 0.000029478 10 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 100%
1908 14 0.00002865 14 100%
1909 19 0.000037166 19 100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 100%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 100%
1912 11 0.000011133 11 100%
1913 24 0.000021106 24 100%
1914 21 0.000014827 21 100%
1915 33 0.000018009 33 100%
1916 38 0.000019644 38 100%
1917 32 0.000015946 32 100%
1918 31 0.000014278 31 100%
1919 49 0.00002322 49 100%
1920 59 0.000026076 59 100%
1921 61 0.00002613 61 100%
1922 55 0.000024026 55 100%
1923 66 0.000028665 66 100%
1924 64 0.000026873 64 100%
1925 87 0.000037286 87 100%
1926 59 0.000025698 59 100%
1927 80 0.000034492 80 100%
1928 73 0.000032287 73 100%
1929 82 0.000037406 82 100%
1930 71 0.000031935 71 100%
1931 61 0.000028987 61 100%
1932 81 0.000038365 81 100%
1933 45 0.000022506 45 100%
1934 71 0.000034187 71 100%
1935 67 0.000032059 67 100%
1936 62 0.000029842 62 100%
1937 73 0.000034262 73 100%
1938 50 0.000022598 50 100%
1939 56 0.000025415 56 100%
1940 59 0.000025622 59 100%
1941 54 0.000022164 54 100%
1942 49 0.000017937 49 100%
1943 48 0.000017006 48 100%
1944 49 0.000018215 49 100%
1945 55 0.000020732 55 100%
1946 50 0.000015648 50 100%
1947 61 0.000016934 61 100%
1948 59 0.000017089 59 100%
1949 47 0.000013487 47 100%
1950 46 0.00001313 46 100%
1951 46 0.000012487 46 100%
1952 35 0.000009215 35 100%
1953 54 0.000014013 54 100%
1954 40 0.000010048 40 100%
1955 33 0.000008219 33 100%
1956 32 0.000007761 32 100%
1957 26 0.000006187 26 100%
1958 19 0.000004596 19 100%
1959 28 0.000006734 28 100%
1960 24 0.000005778 24 100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 100%
1963 15 0.00000379 15 100%
1964 18 0.00000463 18 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 13 0.000003829 13 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%

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