Ruka
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ruka has been given to 41 babies in the U.S. since 2022. 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 2024, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 51% boys, 49% girls all-time.
Babies named Ruka, 2024
1 in 371,000
Ruka 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ruka over time
In 2024, Ruka went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ruka?
Ruka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 191,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ruka sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rukas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruka was born before 2023 — so the typical Ruka is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 21
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (21).
Is Ruka 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 2024 (9)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.0% average annual change
Spellings of Ruka
Ruka is not the most common spelling — Luke is, with 56.4% against Ruka's <0.01%.
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.
Ruka around the world
Where Ruka 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.
- South Australia2003–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ruka by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ruka
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ruka
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.