girls:
6 births since 2021
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
258 births since 1988
#4328 (6th percentile)
overall:
264 births since 1988
#7475 (3rd percentile)
The name Ruairi is the #7,475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 264 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,328 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 258 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2021.
Ruairi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Ruairi is available in 27 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023 (27 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Ruairi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ruairi reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #908) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ruairi ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 48.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ruairi reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruairi".
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Our model has identified 15 different pronunciations for the name Ruairi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 15.6% confident that Ruairi is pronounced as RUE-er-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUE-ree, at 13.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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