Ruthann
Ruthann was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,678 among girls’ names; 7,098 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,830 Americans named Ruthann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 44 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ruthann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ruthann?
#5,678 among girls’ names, 2025
Ruthann fell from #5,628 in 2015 to #5,678 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 13.4 to 13.7 per million.
258 babies in 1943, the peak
Ruthann peaked in 1943, when 258 girls were given it, #460 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,678 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,362 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,845 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,597 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,209 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,626 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,961 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,117 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,906 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,611 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,628 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 28 | #5,004 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,623 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,225 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,179 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,214 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,349 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,255 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,352 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,201 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,247 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,793 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,371 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,847 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,008 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,156 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,780 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,113 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,342 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,016 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,402 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,632 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,937 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,908 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,195 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,982 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,138 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,558 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,111 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,918 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,368 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,346 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,482 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,254 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,585 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,513 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,553 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,086 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,647 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,015 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,094 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,085 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,780 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,161 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,678 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,368 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 69 | #1,342 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 83 | #1,169 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 99 | #1,055 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 67 | #1,346 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 99 | #1,102 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 113 | #1,007 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 117 | #996 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 151 | #868 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 127 | #948 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 121 | #960 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 110 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 108 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 77 | #1,190 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 92 | #1,052 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 90 | #1,037 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 77 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 98 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 132 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 150 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 164 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 200 | #588 | 0.12 |
| 1947 | 206 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 244 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1945 | 221 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1944 | 230 | #471 | 0.17 |
| 1943 | 258 | #460 | 0.18 |
| 1942 | 247 | #470 | 0.18 |
| 1941 | 224 | #467 | 0.19 |
| 1940 | 196 | #494 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 194 | #482 | 0.18 |
| 1938 | 169 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1937 | 145 | #564 | 0.14 |
| 1936 | 65 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 40 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,195 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,203 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,463 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,773 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,016 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,270 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,567 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,189 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,046 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,474 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,850 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,099 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,733 | 0.01 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,177 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ruthann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ruthann has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ruthann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ruthann, and how old are they?
4,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 68% of the 7,098 Americans ever recorded as Ruthann. The median Ruthann alive today is 65 years old; half are between 44 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 9,335 people named Ruthann (9,323 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,290 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 921 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,870 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 773 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 469 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 445 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 347 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Ruthann born?
The states with the most babies named Ruthann are Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 904 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 587 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 467 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 437 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 393 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 339 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 215 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 185 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 163 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 163 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Ruthann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ruthann is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 girls’ 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 Ruthann 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 Ruthann
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 Ruthann and names like it
- Compare Ruthann and MaryannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sRuthann peaked in 1943.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ruthann since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Ruthann.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ruthann alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.