Ruba

#7,080 in 2025Girls' name

Hill

Ruba has been given to 518 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #7,080 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Ruba, 2025

1 in 207,000

Ruba over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ruba: meaning, origin, and history

Hill

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ruba means

Ruba means “hill”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 518 girls were recorded with the name Ruba between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1996; its best national rank was #3,749 in 1919.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,124 in 2020 to #7,080 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,726 in 2015 to #7,080 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Ruba?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 207,000; 16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 100,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,080; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 143,620 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ruba sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rubas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruba was born before 2003 — so the typical Ruba is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 56.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 500; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Ruba rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +3,855; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +3,044; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +3,646; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.60×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 84.2%; Peak was 1996 (19)
Years since peak: 29; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,749; 1919

Spellings of Ruba

Ruba is not the most common spelling — Ruth is, with 38.1% against Ruba's 0.02%.

Ruth38.1%836,122
Ruby17.2%376,570
Rita13.0%284,452
Rosa8.1%177,415
Luna4.0%87,715
Lula3.9%85,248
Eula2.1%47,159
Rena1.8%39,124

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ruba is used

Across 1910–2025, Ruba was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 795,002 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ruba has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ruba around the world

Where Ruba ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2002–2025
#4,867
in 2025
Canada
2018–2019
#2,941
in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ruba by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,080
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 3,044
Best rank ever: #3,749; 1919
Peak year: 1996; 19 that year
First recorded: 1919
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 518
Count in 2025: 16

Names similar to Ruba

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Rubee Luba Rubina Ruben Rubby Rubani Cuba Rubi Rubab Rubbie Rubie Rubyann Tuba Rubena Ruble Rubia Rubyrose Rubye Rubylee Rubit Ruberta Rubell Rubin Rubith

Sibling names for Ruba

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Lexus Corrina Dasia Cinthia Kaela Alexandrea Tristan Jacquelynn

For a brother

Samual Trever Brandan Madison Coty Demarco Mitchel Donavon

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