girls:
8.6k births since 1957
#1757 (69th percentile)
boys:
14 births since 1990
#4572 (0th percentile)
overall:
8.6k births since 1957
#2920 (62nd percentile)
The name Rubi is the #2,920 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,611 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 62.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,757 (69.3% percentile) for all time with 8,597 births since 1957. For boys, it ranks #4,572 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1990.
Rubi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for girls and 1990 for boys). Birth data for Rubi is available in 57 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023 (57 years for girls and 2 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 Rubi has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rubi reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 58.1% percentile (ranked #394) with 353 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 353 births per million (ranked 58.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rubi ranks #750 for girls (20.8% percentile) with 115 births per million, which is 32.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rubi reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #766) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rubi".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Rubi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Rubi is pronounced as RUE-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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