Rua
Rua was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,079 among girls’ names; 73 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rua?
#7,079 among girls’ names, 2025
Rua rose from #16,055 in 2015 to #7,079 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 10.0 per million.
16 babies in 2025, the peak
Rua peaked in 2025, when 16 girls were given it, #7,079 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 10 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,079 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,119 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,438 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,214 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,224 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,666 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,055 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,006 | 2.8 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,037 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rua has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rua, and how old are they?
An estimated 68 Americans named Rua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 143 people named Rua (118 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,401 babies since 1880, Rua is the eighth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 333 babies (4.8%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rua
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rua and names like it
- Compare Rua and RueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRua peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rua.
- Names starting with RMost given first.