Ruble — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ruble

The Social Security Administration has registered 291 babies named Ruble between 1912 and 1948, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ruble currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1948. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Ruble is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 65 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ruble performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 102 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ruble shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Ruble in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ruble in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 291 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.