Rubby
Rubby was last recorded in 2010, when 7 babies were given it; 365 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rubby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rubby?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,665, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1925, the peak
Rubby peaked in 1925, when 11 girls were given it, #3,088 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #14,665 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,178 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,443 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,234 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,149 | 4.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,042 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,370 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,527 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,237 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,251 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 10 | #8,450 | 5.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,417 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,782 | 2.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,306 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,424 | 2.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,096 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,851 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,367 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,909 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,886 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,564 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,459 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,480 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,128 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,549 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,513 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,265 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,140 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,387 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,333 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,134 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,115 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,660 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,015 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,176 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,612 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,640 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,700 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,210 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,016 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,088 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,943 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,306 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,661 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,364 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,551 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,751 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,800 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,501 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,038 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,847 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,097 | 6.6 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,730 | 12.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rubby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rubby has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rubby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rubby, and how old are they?
An estimated 148 Americans named Rubby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 29 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 326 people named Rubby (300 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 181 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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).
How common is the spelling Rubby?
Rubby is a less common spelling of Ruby: SSA has recorded 365 Rubby and 379,684 Ruby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 402,879 babies since 1880, Rubby is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,857 babies recorded by SSA was a Rubby (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 Rubby
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 Rubby and names like it
- Compare Rubby and RubyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRubby peaked in 1925.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rubby since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Rubby.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rubby alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.