Ruperta — girls' name
50 babies named Ruperta in U.S. Social Security records since 1910, with the highest year being 1910. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Ruperta was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Ruperta in 1910 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ruperta
The Social Security Administration has registered 50 babies named Ruperta between 1910 and 1936, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ruperta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1936. The name reached its historical peak in 1910, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ruperta performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 23 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ruperta shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ruperta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ruperta 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 50 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.
Ruperta at a glance
Last recorded 1936Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ruperta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1936–1910
- Peak year (1910)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1936.
50 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1910 with 6 births in a single year.
Ruperta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 23 births that decade — 46% of Ruperta's all-time total
Ruperta decade highlights
- Peak decade 23 births
- Runner-up 16 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Ruperta's strongest decade
23 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Ruperta by state
Where Ruperta concentrates geographically — total births since 1910
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 10.0% |
5 of 50 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 10.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 10.0% 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, 1910–1936 (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.