Ruthie
#778 in the US in 2025
Ruthie in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been rising — up 181% as a share of girls' births.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Ruthie in New Zealand
Ruthie never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #836 | 5 |
| 1890 | #1,210 | 6 |
| 1900 | #803 | 21 |
| 1910 | #534 | 59 |
| 1920 | #442 | 233 |
| 1930 | #330 | 397 |
| 1940 | #317 | 401 |
| 1950 | #412 | 377 |
| 1960 | #607 | 271 |
| 1970 | #1,224 | 91 |
| 1980 | #1,720 | 65 |
| 1990 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 |
| 2010 | #1,959 | 102 |
| 2020 | #1,246 | 182 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Ruthie most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Mississippi | 2,590 |
| Texas | 2,430 |
| Arkansas | 1,771 |
| Alabama | 1,530 |
| Georgia | 1,337 |
| Louisiana | 1,323 |
| Tennessee | 1,014 |
| South Carolina | 717 |
| Florida | 680 |
| California | 602 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026