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Ruta

Girls' name

Form of Ruth

Ruta has been given to 322 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1964, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Ruta, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ruta: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ruth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ruta means

Ruta is a form of Ruth.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ruta is used in Polish and Latvian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈru.ta/ for Ruta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ruta → Ruth. The family’s proposed meaning is “compassion”, recorded in English with the source elements ruth.

Origin, language, and formation

Ruta is used in Latvian and Māori.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ruth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 322 girls were recorded with the name Ruta between 1950 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1964; its best national rank was #2,336 in 1964.

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 Ruta?

Ruta 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 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ruta 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rutas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruta was born before 1964 — so the typical Ruta is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
322
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Ruta 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 1964 (28)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,336
1964

Spellings of Ruta

Ruta is not the most common spelling — Ruth is, with 35.7% against Ruta'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.

Where Ruta is used

Across 1910–2025, Ruta was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 331,251 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Ruta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ruta around the world

Where Ruta 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
    2001–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Norway
    1880–2013
    #559
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1951–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ruta 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
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Best rank ever
#2,336
1964
Peak year
1964
28 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
322
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ruta

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

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Sibling names for Ruta

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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