Rubie
#4,050 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rubie has been given to 5,317 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #4,050 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 156 recorded.
Babies named Rubie, 2025
1 in 92,100
Rubie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rubie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 92,100
- 36 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 44,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,050
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 63,832 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rubie sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rubie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rubies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rubie was born before 1929 — so the typical Rubie is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,654
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (1,152).
Is Rubie 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
- −672
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,169
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −530
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 23.1%
- Peak was 1921 (156)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.7% average annual change
Spellings of Rubie
Rubie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 33.1% against Rubie's 0.34%.
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 Rubie is used
Across 1910–2025, Rubie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 39,847 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 5,556
- 2Arkansas1 in 11,111
- 3Alabama1 in 12,500
- 4Georgia1 in 14,286
- 5Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7Texas1 in 33,333
- 8California1 in 50,000
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. Rubie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rubie around the world
Where Rubie 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,809in 2025
- Scotland2008–2017#808in 2017
- Northern Ireland2012–2023#391in 2023
- Ireland2007–2021#883in 2021
- France1996–2025#6,364in 2025
- Canada2006–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1999–2013#536in 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.
Rubie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Rubie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Rubie
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rubie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Rubie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.