Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ruthie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ruthie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ruthie” 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 “Ruthie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ruthie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ruthie” 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
1880 5 0.000024816 5 100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 100%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 100%
1888 10 0.000033392 10 100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 100%
1891 11 0.000038371 11 100%
1892 12 0.000035888 12 100%
1893 17 0.000052272 17 100%
1894 15 0.000044288 15 100%
1895 27 0.000076919 27 100%
1896 24 0.000067136 24 100%
1897 22 0.000063408 22 100%
1898 22 0.000057674 22 100%
1899 18 0.000053061 18 100%
1900 21 0.00004664 21 100%
1901 26 0.000075185 26 100%
1902 22 0.000056887 22 100%
1903 27 0.000070829 27 100%
1904 25 0.00006196 25 100%
1905 31 0.000073127 31 100%
1906 42 0.000098028 42 100%
1907 39 0.000083801 39 100%
1908 47 0.000096184 47 100%
1909 38 0.000074331 38 100%
1910 59 0.00009988 59 100%
1911 63 0.000097784 63 100%
1912 89 0.000090075 89 100%
1913 96 0.000084425 96 100%
1914 107 0.000075547 107 100%
1915 121 0.000066033 121 100%
1916 146 0.000075475 146 100%
1917 148 0.000073751 148 100%
1918 177 0.000081525 177 100%
1919 191 0.000090511 191 100%
1920 233 0.000102977 233 100%
1921 244 0.000104519 244 100%
1922 250 0.000109211 250 100%
1923 321 0.000139415 321 100%
1924 374 0.000157037 374 100%
1925 381 0.000163288 381 100%
1926 411 0.000179014 411 100%
1927 428 0.000184534 428 100%
1928 385 0.000170283 385 100%
1929 388 0.000176994 381 7 96%
1930 403 0.000181263 397 6 97%
1931 359 0.000170596 359 100%
1932 365 0.00017288 365 100%
1933 367 0.000183551 367 100%
1934 377 0.000181528 377 100%
1935 403 0.000192832 396 7 97%
1936 369 0.000177611 369 100%
1937 385 0.000180694 378 7 96%
1938 388 0.000175361 388 100%
1939 394 0.000178811 389 5 97%
1940 401 0.000174145 401 100%
1941 357 0.000146526 357 100%
1942 410 0.000150083 410 100%
1943 374 0.000132504 374 100%
1944 394 0.000146464 394 100%
1945 376 0.000141731 376 100%
1946 422 0.000132069 422 100%
1947 414 0.000114926 414 100%
1948 400 0.000115857 400 100%
1949 397 0.000113924 397 100%
1950 377 0.000107611 377 100%
1951 314 0.000085239 314 100%
1952 378 0.000099526 378 100%
1953 367 0.000095235 367 100%
1954 331 0.000083151 331 100%
1955 307 0.000076462 307 100%
1956 327 0.00007931 327 100%
1957 322 0.000076628 322 100%
1958 285 0.000068942 285 100%
1959 287 0.000069024 287 100%
1960 271 0.000065241 271 100%
1961 232 0.000056008 232 100%
1962 211 0.000052288 211 100%
1963 196 0.000049517 196 100%
1964 191 0.000049131 191 100%
1965 150 0.000041374 150 100%
1966 120 0.000034526 120 100%
1967 111 0.000032696 111 100%
1968 94 0.000027824 94 100%
1969 84 0.00002417 84 100%
1970 91 0.000025232 91 100%
1971 86 0.000025056 86 100%
1972 73 0.000023226 73 100%
1973 57 0.000018894 57 100%
1974 62 0.000020395 62 100%
1975 51 0.000016891 51 100%
1976 43 0.000014171 43 100%
1977 36 0.000011333 36 100%
1978 34 0.000010712 34 100%
1979 57 0.000017133 57 100%
1980 65 0.000018871 65 100%
1981 33 0.000009539 33 100%
1982 37 0.000010547 37 100%
1983 41 0.000011838 41 100%
1984 29 0.000008312 29 100%
1985 36 0.000010087 36 100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 100%
1987 34 0.00000943 34 100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 100%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 100%
1990 25 0.000006325 25 100%
1991 24 0.000006161 24 100%
1992 19 0.000004946 19 100%
1993 24 0.000006366 24 100%
1994 15 0.000004035 15 100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 100%
1998 28 0.000007612 28 100%
1999 39 0.000010558 39 100%
2000 28 0.000007408 28 100%
2001 42 0.00001122 42 100%
2002 58 0.000015515 58 100%
2003 57 0.000014991 57 100%
2004 80 0.000020937 80 100%
2005 77 0.000020027 77 100%
2006 92 0.000023255 92 100%
2007 73 0.000018261 73 100%
2008 112 0.000028494 112 100%
2009 98 0.000025653 98 100%
2010 102 0.000027599 102 100%
2011 89 0.000024332 89 100%
2012 94 0.000025702 94 100%
2013 114 0.00003127 114 100%
2014 108 0.000029139 108 100%
2015 134 0.000036207 134 100%
2016 137 0.000037343 137 100%
2017 136 0.000038029 136 100%
2018 166 0.000047214 166 100%
2019 160 0.000046097 160 100%
2020 182 0.000054482 182 100%
2021 234 0.000069068 234 100%
2022 260 0.000076852 260 100%
2023 289 0.00008728 289 100%
2024 305 0.000091633 305 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Ruthie:

  1. Ruthetta
  2. Ruthey
  3. Ruthford
  4. Ruthi
  5. Ruthia
  6. Ruthie (this page)
  7. Ruthila
  8. Ruthine
  9. Ruthlee
  10. Ruthlene
  11. Ruthlynn