Rubye
Rubye was last recorded in 2023, when 8 babies were given it; 6,967 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Rubye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 71 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rubye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rubye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,991, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
256 babies in 1919, the peak
Rubye peaked in 1919, when 256 girls were given it, #404 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #11,991 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,216 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,517 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,667 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,056 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,692 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,764 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,687 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,275 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,248 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #19,873 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,934 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,818 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,599 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,239 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,876 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,297 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,302 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,895 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,759 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,972 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,077 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,946 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,548 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,044 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,014 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,558 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 52 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 58 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 74 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 80 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 73 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 85 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 84 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 80 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 88 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 52 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 73 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 105 | #673 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 100 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 98 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 79 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 127 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 99 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 92 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 120 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 125 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 160 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1928 | 133 | #613 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 165 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1926 | 195 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1925 | 178 | #535 | 0.15 |
| 1924 | 226 | #462 | 0.18 |
| 1923 | 210 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1922 | 225 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1921 | 242 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1920 | 241 | #433 | 0.20 |
| 1919 | 256 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1918 | 254 | #412 | 0.22 |
| 1917 | 244 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1916 | 241 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1915 | 210 | #413 | 0.21 |
| 1914 | 172 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1913 | 138 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1912 | 158 | #366 | 0.28 |
| 1911 | 116 | #380 | 0.28 |
| 1910 | 84 | #437 | 0.21 |
| 1909 | 98 | #374 | 0.28 |
| 1908 | 80 | #409 | 0.24 |
| 1907 | 61 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1906 | 76 | #395 | 0.26 |
| 1905 | 67 | #419 | 0.23 |
| 1904 | 62 | #410 | 0.23 |
| 1903 | 58 | #418 | 0.22 |
| 1902 | 49 | #451 | 0.19 |
| 1901 | 46 | #438 | 0.19 |
| 1900 | 23 | #776 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 23 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 23 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 20 | #711 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 19 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 19 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 21 | #661 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 11 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 17 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 9 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,126 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,448 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1886 | 7 | #981 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rubye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rubye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rubye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rubye, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 16% of the 6,967 Americans ever recorded as Rubye. The median Rubye alive today is 79 years old; half are between 71 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 1,100 people named Rubye (1,100 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 465 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 494 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 48 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 39 |
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 Rubye born?
The states with the most babies named Rubye are Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 984 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Tennessee | 789 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Texas | 615 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 613 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Mississippi | 545 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Arkansas | 266 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Oklahoma | 231 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 170 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 148 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 125 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Rubye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rubye is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 4.9 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 Rubye with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 402,879 babies since 1880, Rubye is the third most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,857 babies recorded by SSA was a Rubye (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 Rubye
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 Rubye and names like it
- Compare Rubye and RubyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sRubye peaked in 1919.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rubye since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Rubye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rubye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.