Rulon
Rulon was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,049 Americans have been recorded with it between 1905 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rulon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rulon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,078, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1927, the peak
Rulon peaked in 1927, when 25 boys were given it, #1,552 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #12,078 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,867 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,934 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #8,006 | 5.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,430 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,532 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,178 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,266 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,664 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,438 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 13 | #6,146 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,437 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,466 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,435 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,834 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,944 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,974 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,972 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,038 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,235 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,013 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,599 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,257 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,020 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,792 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,111 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,509 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,620 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,469 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,835 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,252 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,878 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,404 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,920 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,102 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,096 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,831 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,551 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,873 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,516 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,773 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,905 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,493 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,487 | 3.9 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,973 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,648 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,394 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,605 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,242 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,865 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,919 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,492 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,166 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,194 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,105 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,063 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,312 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,552 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,585 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,098 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,341 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,379 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,112 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,875 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,382 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,243 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,521 | 17.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,408 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,623 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,965 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,975 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,816 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,373 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,918 | 14.5 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,193 | 12.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,912 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,832 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,525 | 21.9 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,914 | 15.8 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,602 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,552 | 22.2 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,775 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,070 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,829 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,313 | 12.8 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,018 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,042 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,682 | 20.7 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,240 | 14.3 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,373 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,262 | 14.0 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,129 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,767 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,758 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,461 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,232 | 16.3 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,706 | 26.6 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,078 | 54.5 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,227 | 45.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,394 | 37.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rulon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rulon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rulon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rulon, and how old are they?
An estimated 476 Americans named Rulon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 25 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 551 people named Rulon (5 women and girls, 546 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 Rulon born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 492 | not ranked | 59.7× |
| Idaho | 57 | not ranked | 11.6× |
Where Rulon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rulon is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 59.7 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 boys’ 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 Rulon 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 Rulon
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 Rulon and names like it
- Compare Rulon and OnealBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRulon peaked in 1927.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rulon since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Rulon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rulon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.