Rus
Rus was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,778 among girls’ names; 103 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rus?
#6,778 among girls’ names, 2025
Rus entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #6,778 in 2025.
17 babies in 2025, the peak
Rus peaked in 2025, when 17 girls were given it, #6,778 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 12 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,778 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,851 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,010 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,221 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,937 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,545 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,259 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,954 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,351 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,700 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,015 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,881 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,982 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,461 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 103 Americans recorded as Rus, 89% are girls and 11% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rus, and how old are they?
An estimated 99 Americans named Rus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 249 people named Rus (90 women and girls, 159 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 52 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rus
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 Rus and names like it
- Compare Rus and AmourBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rus.
- Names starting with RMost given first.