girls:
130 births since 2010
#5586 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2020
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
135 births since 2010
#7604 (2nd percentile)
The name Ruah is the #7,604 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 135 recorded births since 2010. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,586 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 130 births since 2010. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2020.
Ruah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2010 (2010 for girls and 2020 for boys). Birth data for Ruah is available in 12 out of the 14 years between 2010 and 2023 (12 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ruah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ruah reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #920) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ruah ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 68.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ruah reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #901) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ruah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ruah is pronounced as RUE-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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