boys:
66 births since 1983
#4520 (1st percentile)
overall:
66 births since 1983
#7673 (1st percentile)
The name Ruan is the #7,673 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 66 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,520 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 66 births since 1983.
Ruan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (first recorded for boys in 1983). Birth data for Ruan is available in 10 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Ruan reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #919) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ruan ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 61.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ruan is pronounced as RUE-uhn, which has 2 syllables.
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