girls:
63 births since 2008
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1957
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
74 births since 1957
#7665 (1st percentile)
The name Rus is the #7,665 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 74 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 0.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 2008. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1957.
Rus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for boys and 2008 for girls). Birth data for Rus is available in 12 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023 (10 years for girls and 2 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 Rus has been given predominantly to girls, with 85.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Rus were girls. Interestingly, until around 2008, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1957 to 2007), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2008 to 2023).
For girls, Rus reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #943) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rus is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #943 (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million.
For boys, Rus reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #656) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1960.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rus".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rus is pronounced as ruhs, which has 1 syllables.
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