girls:
369.4k births since 1880
#100 (98th percentile)
boys:
3.1k births since 1880
#2254 (51st percentile)
overall:
372.5k births since 1880
#194 (98th percentile)
The name Ruby is the #194 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 372,489 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #100 (98.3% percentile) for all time with 369,408 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,254 (50.8% percentile) for all time with 3,081 births since 1880.
Ruby has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Ruby has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ruby reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 96.2% percentile (ranked #23) with 7,079 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 7,632 births per million (ranked 94.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ruby ranks #64 for girls (93.3% percentile) with 1,905 births per million, which is 25.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ruby reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 14.1% percentile (ranked #463) with 70 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 187 births per million (ranked 9.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ruby ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 3.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruby".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Ruby.
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ruby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ruby is pronounced as RUE-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R UW1 B IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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