Ruey
Ruey was last recorded in 1955, when 5 babies were given it; 90 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ruey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ruey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,548, in 1955; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 1925, the peak
Ruey peaked in 1925, when 7 girls were given it, #4,369 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 5 | #6,548 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,706 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,255 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,482 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,315 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,503 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,369 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,589 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,740 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,853 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 6 | #4,506 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,041 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,000 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,905 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,776 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,676 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,028 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ruey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 90 Americans recorded as Ruey, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ruey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ruey, and how old are they?
An estimated 10 Americans named Ruey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Ruey (97 women and girls, 101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.2 times 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.
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 Ruey?
Ruey is a less common spelling of Ruie: SSA has recorded 90 Ruey and 470 Ruie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,263 babies since 1880, Ruey is the seventh most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 333 babies recorded by SSA was a Ruey (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 Ruey
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 Ruey and names like it
- Compare Ruey and RuieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRuey peaked in 1925.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Ruey.
- Names starting with RMost given first.