girls:
7k births since 1906
#1950 (66th percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1906
#3212 (58th percentile)
The name Ruthann is the #3,212 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,041 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 58.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,950 (65.9% percentile) for all time with 7,041 births since 1906.
Ruthann first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (first recorded for girls in 1906). Birth data for Ruthann is available in 112 out of the 118 years between 1906 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, Ruthann reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 35.9% percentile (ranked #402) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 180 births per million (ranked 33.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ruthann ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 8.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruthann".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ruthann. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.0% confident that Ruthann is pronounced as RUE-THAN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUE-than, at 37.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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