Ruger
Ruger is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 75 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 750.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2016167 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1993
- 2,244people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,244 boys have been named Ruger in the United States since 1993, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 167 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 58%.
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Ruger was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Ruger
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Paxtonpeak 2016
- Graysenpeak 2016
- Breckenpeak 2017
- Jaycepeak 2015
- Greysenpeak 2017
- Sawyerpeak 2015
- Maxsonpeak 2016
- Eastonpeak 2016
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.