Ruba
Ruba was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,080 among girls’ names; 518 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ruba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ruba?
#7,080 among girls’ names, 2025
Ruba rose from #10,726 in 2015 to #7,080 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 10.0 per million.
19 babies in 1996, the peak
Ruba peaked in 1996, when 19 girls were given it, #5,237 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,080 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,935 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,142 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,038 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,378 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,124 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,648 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,280 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,695 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,702 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,726 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,987 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,678 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,545 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,383 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,217 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,247 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,956 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,913 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,169 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,772 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,700 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,500 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,187 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,621 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,555 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,153 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,636 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,875 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,237 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,411 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,575 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,368 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,920 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,176 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,479 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,582 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,219 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,566 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,363 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,041 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,975 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,868 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,754 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,734 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,729 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,058 | 3.3 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,137 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,642 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,749 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ruba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ruba has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ruba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ruba, and how old are they?
An estimated 493 Americans named Ruba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,014 people named Ruba (1,003 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 438 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 402,197 babies since 1880, Ruba is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 3,857 babies (<1%), 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 Ruba
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 Ruba and names like it
- Compare Ruba and RubyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRuba peaked in 1996.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ruba since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Ruba.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ruba alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.