Ruthanne
Ruthanne was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,505 among girls’ names; 2,685 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,980 Americans named Ruthanne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 32 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ruthanne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ruthanne?
#6,505 among girls’ names, 2025
Ruthanne rose from #7,210 in 2015 to #6,505 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 11.2 per million.
90 babies in 1946, the peak
Ruthanne peaked in 1946, when 90 girls were given it, #877 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,505 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,195 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,191 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,170 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,427 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,590 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,215 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,047 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,210 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,172 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,210 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,870 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,971 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,392 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,258 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,323 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,295 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,376 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,666 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,087 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,763 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,321 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,557 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,331 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,902 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,418 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,420 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,751 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,187 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,238 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,943 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,917 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,623 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,231 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,874 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,480 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,221 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,775 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,617 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,735 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,285 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,501 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,077 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,873 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,127 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,473 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,670 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,364 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,027 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,788 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,538 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,994 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,119 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,726 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,040 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,204 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,440 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,852 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,260 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,760 | 24.8 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,615 | 27.8 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,799 | 22.7 |
| 1963 | 35 | #2,006 | 18.2 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,551 | 27.0 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,738 | 21.8 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,783 | 20.3 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,474 | 26.7 |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,014 | 15.4 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,920 | 16.1 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,828 | 17.4 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,794 | 17.9 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,977 | 14.9 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,962 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,502 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,692 | 18.3 |
| 1950 | 52 | #1,281 | 30.4 |
| 1949 | 59 | #1,186 | 34.5 |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,322 | 28.9 |
| 1947 | 61 | #1,159 | 34.4 |
| 1946 | 90 | #877 | 57.3 |
| 1945 | 54 | #1,075 | 41.3 |
| 1944 | 76 | #880 | 57.3 |
| 1943 | 59 | #1,047 | 42.3 |
| 1942 | 76 | #900 | 56.3 |
| 1941 | 55 | #991 | 45.5 |
| 1940 | 55 | #970 | 48.1 |
| 1939 | 48 | #1,037 | 43.8 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,313 | 29.0 |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,232 | 32.9 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,134 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,548 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,545 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,145 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,472 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,290 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,019 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,405 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,129 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,673 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,018 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,601 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,397 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,088 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,934 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,121 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,641 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,973 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,801 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ruthanne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ruthanne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ruthanne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ruthanne, and how old are they?
1,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 2,685 Americans ever recorded as Ruthanne. The median Ruthanne alive today is 59 years old; half are between 32 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 2,947 people named Ruthanne (2,943 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,065 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above 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 | 244 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 643 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 337 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 293 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 255 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 203 |
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 Ruthanne born?
The states with the most babies named Ruthanne are Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 153 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 121 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 105 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 63 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 50 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 49 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Ruthanne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,530 babies since 1880, Ruthanne is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 25 babies (72%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ruthanne
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 Ruthanne and names like it
- Compare Ruthanne and RuthannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sRuthanne peaked in 1946.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ruthanne since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Ruthanne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ruthanne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.