Rut — #6005 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rut

The Social Security Administration has registered 834 babies named Rut between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rut currently holds the #6005 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rut performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 269 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Rut shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 67 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Rut in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rut 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 834 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.