girls:
12 births since 2016
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 1993
#2705 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1993
#5611 (27th percentile)
The name Ruger is the #5,611 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,180 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 27.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,705 (41.0% percentile) for all time with 2,168 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2016.
Ruger first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2016 for girls).
The name Ruger has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ruger reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 17.6% percentile (ranked #753) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 84 births per million (ranked 17.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ruger ranks #813 for boys (10.8% percentile) with 56 births per million, which is 67.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ruger reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #939) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruger".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ruger. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.6% confident that Ruger is pronounced as RUE-ger, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUE-jer, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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