Rubye

girls:

7k births since 1886

#1967 (66th percentile)

overall:

7k births since 1886

#3229 (58th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Rubye is the #3,229 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,967 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 58.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,967 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 6,967 births since 1886.

Rubye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (first recorded for girls in 1886). Birth data for Rubye is available in 105 out of the 138 years between 1886 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 girls, Rubye reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 37.8% percentile (ranked #370) with 218 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 269 births per million (ranked 30.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rubye ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rubye".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
6,967
Peak Births
256
Peak Year
1919
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
37.8%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#370
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Rubye

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rubye. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 81.1% confident that Rubye is pronounced as RUE-bee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUE-bai, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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81.1%
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18.9%
RUE-bee (2 syllables)
81.1% confidence
R UW1 B IY0
RUE-bai (2 syllables)
18.9% confidence
R UW1 B AY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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