How rare is the name Ruthie?

9,841 people in the United States have the first name Ruthie, about 1 in 30,691. It ranks #2,492 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RUTHIE

#2,492

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,841
About
1 in 30,691
This common or more
80%
Who bears it

Of the 9,841 people named Ruthie, 45.1% reported their origin as Black, 44.1% as White and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ruthie peaked in 1927, when 428 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1927
Births that year
428
In 2025*
349 ▼18%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 22,656 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Ruthie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #602. The largest share of babies named Ruthie, 30.4%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,53466
1890s#1,187174
1900s#1,001318
1910s#9671,197
1920s#6703,415
1930s#6023,810
1940s#6873,945
1950s#8993,295
1960s#1,3621,660
1970s#2,666590
1980s#4,214365
1990s#7,095241
2000s#4,227717
2010s#3,0831,240
2020s#1,8201,623
Before 19011.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2718.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4530.4%
Baby boom 1946–6426.6%
Generation X 1965–805.4%
Millennials 1981–962%
Generation Z 1997–124.8%
2013 and later11.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ruthie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ruthie has been most common in Mississippi (11×), Arkansas (9×), and Alabama (4.6×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.08×).

17,967 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Ruthie

#2,490 Abbigail · 9,864#2,491 Hui · 9,857#2,493 Houston · 9,835#2,494 Matilde · 9,811

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ruthie, most common first.

#19,129 Ruthe · 558#42,079 Ruthi · 172

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