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Ruthann

#5,678 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ruthann has been given to 7,098 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #5,678 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1943, with 258 recorded.

Babies named Ruthann, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ruthann: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ruthann means

Ruthann is a given name.

The naming story behind Ruthann

Wikidata records Ruthann as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q117815966, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,098 girls were recorded with the name Ruthann between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 258 in 1943; its best national rank was #460 in 1943.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,626 in 2020 to #5,678 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,628 in 2015 to #5,678 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.

How common is Ruthann?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,678
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ruthann 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruthann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ruthanns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruthann was born before 1951 — so the typical Ruthann is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,783
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (2,190).

Is Ruthann 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
−1,316
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−52
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−50
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.5%
Peak was 1943 (258)
Years since peak
82
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#460
1943

Spellings of Ruthann

Ruthann is the most-used spelling, taking 43.8% of the 16,201 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Ruthann is used

Across 1910–2025, Ruthann was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 24,563 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 10,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 10,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 11,111
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 16,667
  5. 5Ohio1 in 16,667
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 25,000

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

Ruthann around the world

Where Ruthann 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.

  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1967–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ruthann

People whose public names include Ruthann, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ruthann in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ruthann. Linked forms have their own page here.

Ruthanne

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ruthann by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,678
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 52
Best rank ever
#460
1943
Peak year
1943
258 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,098
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Ruthann

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

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Names with a curve like Ruthann

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

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Sibling names for Ruthann

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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