Rufina
Rufina was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,595 among girls’ names; 1,041 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rufina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rufina?
#14,595 among girls’ names, 2025
Rufina entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,595 in 2025.
32 babies in 1928, the peak
Rufina peaked in 1928, when 32 girls were given it, #1,389 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,595 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,122 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,008 | 5.6 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,057 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,225 | 4.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,670 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,765 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,278 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,080 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,180 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 9 | #12,218 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,602 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,531 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,955 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,558 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,380 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,051 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,603 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,043 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,013 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,505 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,426 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,030 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,945 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,986 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,567 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,573 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,043 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,738 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,755 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,973 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,700 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,854 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,905 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,059 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,360 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,763 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,828 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,191 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,787 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,935 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,557 | 6.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,203 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,303 | 5.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,374 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,416 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,707 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,098 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,838 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,835 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,348 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,581 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,948 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,065 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,672 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,251 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,969 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,948 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,037 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,469 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,348 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,492 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,827 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,961 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,815 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,801 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,723 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,205 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,389 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,938 | 16.3 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,378 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,742 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,661 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,239 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,862 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 18 | #2,009 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,591 | 22.4 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,389 | 27.7 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,579 | 23.5 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,507 | 25.3 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,839 | 18.9 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,527 | 24.8 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,665 | 21.6 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,366 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,363 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,247 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,368 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,273 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,763 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,630 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,506 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,129 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,308 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,912 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,933 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,504 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,182 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,377 | 15.0 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,918 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,184 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,832 | 21.8 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,001 | 18.9 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,632 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rufina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rufina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rufina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rufina, and how old are they?
An estimated 472 Americans named Rufina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 29 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,118 people named Rufina (4,106 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 515 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.0 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).
Where are babies named Rufina born?
The states with the most babies named Rufina are Texas, New Mexico and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 149 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New Mexico | 59 | not ranked | 10.1× |
| California | 53 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Rufina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rufina is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 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 Rufina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rufina
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.
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