Ruhi
Ruhi was given to 89 girls in 2025, #2,115 among girls’ names; 1,333 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Ruhi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ruhi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ruhi?
#2,115 among girls’ names, 2025
Ruhi rose from #2,376 in 2015 to #2,115 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 43.7 to 55.4 per million.
107 babies in 2020, the peak
Ruhi peaked in 2020, when 107 girls were given it, #1,838 among girls’ names. The 89 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #2,115 | 55.4 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,881 | 66.0 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,351 | 48.6 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,340 | 48.8 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,342 | 47.5 |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,838 | 66.2 |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,228 | 49.5 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,899 | 34.1 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,424 | 43.4 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,691 | 36.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,376 | 43.7 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,801 | 34.7 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,622 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,224 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,329 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,213 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,678 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,988 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,278 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,069 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,191 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,922 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,996 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,073 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,242 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,429 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,156 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,925 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,372 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,528 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,010 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ruhi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ruhi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ruhi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ruhi, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,333 Americans ever recorded as Ruhi. The median Ruhi alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,025 people named Ruhi (984 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 815 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 327 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 985 |
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 Ruhi born?
The states with the most babies named Ruhi are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,562 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,889 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #922 | 2.8× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,215 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 6 | #1,023 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,641 | 0.1× |
Where Ruhi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ruhi is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1989 it was given 2.8 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 Ruhi 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 4,440 babies since 1880, Ruhi is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 89 of their 317 babies (28%), again the second most given.
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 Ruhi
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 Ruhi and names like it
- Compare Ruhi and RueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRuhi peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ruhi since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Ruhi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ruhi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.