Rutha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Rutha

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,799 babies named Rutha between 1884 and 1975, spanning 92 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rutha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1975. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 87 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rutha performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 686 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Rutha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 476 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Rutha in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rutha 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 2,799 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.