Ruie — girls' name
470 babies named Ruie in U.S. Social Security records since 1884, with the highest year being 1917. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
27% of everyone ever named Ruie was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Ruie in 1917 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ruie
The Social Security Administration has registered 470 babies named Ruie between 1884 and 1948, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ruie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1948. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ruie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Ruie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ruie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ruie 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 470 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.
Ruie at a glance
Last recorded 1948Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ruie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1948–1884
- Peak year (1917)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 65 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1948.
470 total births across 65 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1917 with 20 births in a single year.
Ruie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 125 births that decade — 27% of Ruie's all-time total
Ruie decade highlights
- Peak decade 125 births
- Runner-up 124 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Ruie's strongest decade
125 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Ruie by state
Where Ruie concentrates geographically — total births since 1884
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kentucky | | 35 | 7.4% |
35 of 470 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 7.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 7.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1884–1948 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.