Rubymae
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rubymae has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 2021, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Rubymae, 2023
1 in 552,000
Rubymae 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rubymae?
Rubymae 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 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 267,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rubymae sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rubymae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rubymaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rubymae was born before 2012 — so the typical Rubymae is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 30
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Rubymae 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2021 (8)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Rubymae
Rubymae is not the most common spelling — Rubye is, with 99.4% against Rubymae's 0.60%.
- Rubye99.4%6,967
- Rubymae0.60%42
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.
Rubymae around the world
Where Rubymae 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#1,407in 2025
- Scotland2013–2024#790in 2024
- Ireland2009–2020#834in 2020
- South Australia1997–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rubymae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rubymae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rubymae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.