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Rut

#8,767 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly compassion, through Ruth

Rut has been given to 846 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #8,767 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Rut, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rut: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly compassion, through Ruth

Hebrew

What Rut means

Rut belongs to the name family reached through Rut → Ruth → Ruth. Its meaning is “compassion”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rut is used in Catalan, Faroese, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ruth.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Rut is pronounced [ˈrut].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 846 girls were recorded with the name Rut between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,085 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,501 in 2020 to #8,767 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,929 in 2015 to #8,767 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rut?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,767
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rut 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rut. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ruts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rut was born before 2007 — so the typical Rut is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
846
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Choose a decade

2000s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Rut 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
−2,650
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,266
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,838
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 2009 (38)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,085
2009

Where Rut is used

Across 1910–2025, Rut was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 364,854 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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

Rut around the world

Where Rut 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
    2012–2024
    #3,319
    in 2024
  • France
    2012–2022
    #5,639
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2021
    #460
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Rut by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,767
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,266
Best rank ever
#4,085
2009
Peak year
2009
38 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
846
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Rut

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

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Sibling names for Rut

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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