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Rubye

Girls' name

Variant of Ruby

Rubye has been given to 6,967 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 256 recorded.

Babies named Rubye, 2023

1 in 414,000

Rubye over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rubye: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ruby

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rubye means

Rubye is a variant of Ruby.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rubye is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹuː.bi/ for Rubye.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rubye → Ruby. The family’s meaning is “Ruby gemstone”, recorded in the naming reference for Ruby.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ruby.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,967 girls were recorded with the name Rubye between 1886 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 256 in 1919; its best national rank was #366 in 1912.

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 Rubye?

Rubye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rubye 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 2023 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rubye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rubyes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rubye was born before 1923 — so the typical Rubye is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
545
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (1,975).

Is Rubye 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (256)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#366
1912

Spellings of Rubye

Rubye is not the most common spelling — Ruby is, with 79.8% against Rubye's 1.5%.

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 Rubye is used

Across 1910–2025, Rubye was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 14,677 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,846
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 4,348
  3. 3Georgia1 in 4,545
  4. 4Alabama1 in 5,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 6,667
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 9,091
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 14,286
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 20,000

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. Rubye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rubye by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#366
1912
Peak year
1919
256 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
6,967
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rubye

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

RubieRubiRubinaRubeeRubaRubenBobbyeRubbyRubbieRubaniRubabRubyRubyannRubenaRubleRobbyeAbbyeRubiaRubyroseRubyleeRubitRubertaRubellRubin

Names with a curve like Rubye

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

GarnetMaurineVerdaAdellHortenseIolaMozelleElveraOletaElnaIoneJohnie

Sibling names for Rubye

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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