Rubee
Rubee was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,344 among girls’ names; 281 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rubee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rubee?
#9,344 among girls’ names, 2025
Rubee fell from #6,676 in 2015 to #9,344 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 6.8 per million.
22 babies in 2016, the peak
Rubee peaked in 2016, when 22 girls were given it, #5,949 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,344 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,957 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,484 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,661 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,379 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,039 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,323 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,046 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,696 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,949 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,676 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,027 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,493 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,725 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,128 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,062 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,525 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,069 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,932 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,461 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,036 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,235 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,827 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,330 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,352 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rubee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rubee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rubee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rubee, and how old are they?
An estimated 279 Americans named Rubee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 208 people named Rubee (208 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 204 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 Rubee?
Rubee is a less common spelling of Ruby: SSA has recorded 281 Rubee and 379,684 Ruby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 402,879 babies since 1880, Rubee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 3,857 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Rubee
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 Rubee and names like it
- Compare Rubee and RubyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRubee peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rubee since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Rubee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rubee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.