girls:
5.2k births since 1884
#2336 (59th percentile)
boys:
46 births since 1913
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
5.2k births since 1884
#3776 (51st percentile)
The name Rubie is the #3,776 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,232 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 51.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,336 (59.1% percentile) for all time with 5,186 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1913.
Rubie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Rubie is available in 135 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (135 years for girls and 8 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 Rubie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rubie reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 24.7% percentile (ranked #456) with 122 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 141 births per million (ranked 12.1% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Rubie ranks #908 for girls (4.1% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 17.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rubie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #501) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rubie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rubie is pronounced as RUE-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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