girls:
133 births since 2004
#5583 (2nd percentile)
boys:
112 births since 2003
#4474 (2nd percentile)
overall:
245 births since 2003
#7494 (3rd percentile)
The name Ruari is the #7,494 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 245 recorded births since 2003. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,583 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 133 births since 2004. For boys, it ranks #4,474 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 112 births since 2003.
Ruari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2003 (2003 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Ruari is available in 20 out of the 21 years between 2003 and 2023 (15 years for girls and 14 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 Ruari is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ruari were boys.
For girls, Ruari reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #946) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Ruari reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #896) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ruari ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 39.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruari".
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Our model has identified 17 different pronunciations for the name Ruari. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.0% confident that Ruari is pronounced as RAW-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUE-ah-ree, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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