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Rubi

#1,079 in 2025Girls' name

Ruby

Rubi has been given to 9,065 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #1,079 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 716 recorded.

Babies named Rubi, 2025

1 in 14,700

Rubi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rubi: meaning, origin, and history

Ruby

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rubi means

Rubi means “ruby”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,051 girls were recorded with the name Rubi between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 716 in 2005; its best national rank was #431 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,317 in 2020 to #1,079 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,349 in 2015 to #1,079 in 2025.

In the United States, 14 boys were recorded with the name Rubi between 1990 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1990; its best national rank was #6,295 in 1990.

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.

How common is Rubi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,700
225 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,140
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,079
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,214 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rubi 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,214 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rubi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rubis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rubi was born before 2006 — so the typical Rubi is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,051
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (3,425).

Is Rubi 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
+11
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+238
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+270
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.4%
Peak was 2005 (716)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#431
2005

Spellings of Rubi

Rubi is not the most common spelling — Ruth is, with 49.6% against Rubi's 0.54%.

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 Rubi is used

Across 2016–2025, Rubi was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 7,913 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

230 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 3,333
  2. 2Oregon1 in 4,167
  3. 3California1 in 4,545
  4. 4Texas1 in 5,556
  5. 5Florida1 in 6,667
  6. 6Maryland1 in 7,692
  7. 7New York1 in 8,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 9,091

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.

Rubi around the world

Where Rubi 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2018
    #896
    in 2018
  • France
    2006–2025
    #3,611
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #275
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rubi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,079
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 238
Best rank ever
#431
2005
Peak year
2005
716 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,051
Count in 2025
225

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,295
1990
Peak year
1990
8 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rubi

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

RubieRubyeRubaRubyRubinaRubeeRubenRubbyRubbieRubaniRubabRubyannRubenaRubleRubiaRubyroseRubyleeRubitRubertaRubellRubinRubithRubylynnRubey

Names with a curve like Rubi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rubi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rubi

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

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