Rubbie
Rubbie was last recorded in 1963, when 5 babies were given it; 682 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rubbie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rubbie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,423, in 1963; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1923, the peak
Rubbie peaked in 1923, when 31 girls were given it, #1,486 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #7,423 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,706 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,302 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,156 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,833 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,671 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,458 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,946 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,742 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,950 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 15 | #2,756 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,590 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,317 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,282 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,215 | 12.1 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,090 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,085 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,443 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,402 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,513 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,190 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,106 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,262 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,709 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,132 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,285 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,407 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,258 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,674 | 20.6 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,555 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 18 | #2,008 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,813 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,885 | 18.2 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,815 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,142 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,105 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,984 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,486 | 25.7 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,831 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,038 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,878 | 18.4 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,750 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,361 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,526 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,472 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,238 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,598 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,504 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,359 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,109 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,181 | 17.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rubbie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rubbie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rubbie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rubbie, and how old are they?
An estimated 182 Americans named Rubbie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 72 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 203 people named Rubbie (191 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 252 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Rubbie born?
The states with the most babies named Rubbie are Mississippi, Georgia and Arkansas, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 103 | not ranked | 7.2× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 15 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Alabama | 10 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Rubbie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rubbie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 7.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rubbie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Rubbie?
Rubbie is a less common spelling of Ruby: SSA has recorded 682 Rubbie and 379,684 Ruby since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 402,361 babies since 1880, Rubbie is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,841 babies recorded by SSA was a Rubbie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rubbie
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 Rubbie and names like it
- Compare Rubbie and RubyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRubbie peaked in 1923.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rubbie since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Rubbie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rubbie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.