girls:
5 births since 1913
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1882
#2872 (37th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1882
#5861 (24th percentile)
The name Ruel is the #5,861 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,900 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 24.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,872 (37.3% percentile) for all time with 1,895 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1913.
Ruel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Ruel is available in 126 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (126 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Ruel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ruel reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 8.8% percentile (ranked #459) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 85 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ruel ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 6.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ruel reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #480) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1913.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ruel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Ruel is pronounced as RUE-ehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruel, at 41.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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