Rubi
Rubi was given to 225 girls in 2025, #1,079 among girls’ names; 9,065 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,940 Americans named Rubi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rubi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rubi?
#1,079 among girls’ names, 2025
Rubi rose from #1,349 in 2015 to #1,079 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.14 per 1,000.
716 babies in 2005, the peak
Rubi peaked in 2005, when 716 girls were given it, #431 among girls’ names. The 225 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 225 | #1,079 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 227 | #1,090 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,185 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 240 | #1,060 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 196 | #1,213 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 168 | #1,317 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 186 | #1,254 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 163 | #1,385 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 167 | #1,386 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 184 | #1,306 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 177 | #1,349 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 191 | #1,265 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 188 | #1,266 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 203 | #1,208 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 216 | #1,137 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 303 | #878 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 325 | #857 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 531 | #582 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 409 | #717 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 471 | #618 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 716 | #431 | 0.39 |
| 2004 | 448 | #613 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,577 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,342 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,376 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,537 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 101 | #1,650 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 125 | #1,379 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 121 | #1,395 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 137 | #1,271 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 152 | #1,149 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 147 | #1,200 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 201 | #941 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 211 | #925 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 216 | #901 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 285 | #733 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 134 | #1,207 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,024 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,146 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,031 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,917 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,828 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,219 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,753 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,584 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,715 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,786 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,597 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,529 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,135 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,187 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,211 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,342 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,714 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,089 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,314 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,838 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rubi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rubi has been given almost only to girls: 14 boys in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rubi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rubi, and how old are they?
8,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,065 Americans ever recorded as Rubi. The median Rubi alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 9,654 people named Rubi (9,508 women and girls, 146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,759 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 289 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,500 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Rubi born?
The states with the most babies named Rubi are California, Texas and New York, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 51 | #627 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 23 | #1,184 | 2.0× |
| New York | 17 | #942 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 11 | #843 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 9 | #742 | 1.8× |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #537 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,843 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,254 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,013 | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #857 | 0.2× |
Where Rubi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rubi is most over-represented in California: since 1957 it was given 2.3 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 Rubi 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 Rubi?
Rubi is a less common spelling of Ruby: SSA has recorded 9,065 Rubi and 379,684 Ruby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 402,879 babies since 1880, Rubi is the second most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 225 of their 3,857 babies (5.8%), again the second most given.
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 Rubi
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 Rubi and names like it
- Compare Rubi and RubyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRubi peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rubi since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Rubi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rubi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.