Rubye — girls' name

What the Data Says About Rubye

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,967 babies named Rubye between 1886 and 2023, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rubye currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 256 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rubye performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,975 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Rubye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 984 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Rubye in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rubye 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 6,967 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.