Ruthanna
#12,930 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ruthanna has been given to 785 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #12,930 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Ruthanna, 2025
1 in 474,000
Ruthanna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ruthanna?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,930
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ruthanna sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruthanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ruthannas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruthanna was born before 1943 — so the typical Ruthanna is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 23.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 357
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (185).
Is Ruthanna 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
- +278
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,863
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,678
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.40×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 29.2%
- Peak was 1923 (24)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.1% average annual change
Spellings of Ruthanna
Ruthanna is not the most common spelling — Ruthann is, with 41.3% against Ruthanna's 4.6%.
Where Ruthanna is used
Across 1910–2025, Ruthanna was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 177,846 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Indiana1 in 100,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 3Kansas1 in —
- 4Ohio1 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. Ruthanna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ruthanna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ruthanna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ruthanna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.