Rubye
Rubye is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 366th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1919256 births
- Best rank
- #366in 1912
- Since 1886
- 6,967people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,967 girls have been named Rubye in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 256 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 256 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rubye | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 24 | |
| 1890s | 168 | |
| 1900s | 620 | |
| 1910s | 1,873 | |
| 1920s | 1,975 | |
| 1930s | 1,018 | |
| 1940s | 744 | |
| 1950s | 330 | |
| 1960s | 92 | |
| 1970s | 21 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2000s | 36 | |
| 2010s | 38 | |
| 2020s | 13 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Rubye was the 404th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Rubye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maurinepeak 1917
- Jewellpeak 1920
- Opalpeak 1918
- Velmapeak 1921
- Mildredpeak 1920
- Lucillepeak 1920
- Garnetpeak 1918
- Blanchiepeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.