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Ruthanne

#6,505 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ruthanne has been given to 2,685 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #6,505 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1946, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Ruthanne, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ruthanne: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ruthanne means

Ruthanne is a given name.

The naming story behind Ruthanne

Wikidata records Ruthanne as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q117815922, 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, 2,685 girls were recorded with the name Ruthanne between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 1946; its best national rank was #877 in 1946.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,590 in 2020 to #6,505 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,210 in 2015 to #6,505 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 Ruthanne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,505
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ruthanne 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruthanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ruthannes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruthanne was born before 1960 — so the typical Ruthanne is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
23.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,718
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Choose a decade

1940s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (634).

Is Ruthanne 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
+690
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+85
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+705
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.0%
Peak was 1946 (90)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#877
1946

Spellings of Ruthanne

Ruthanne is not the most common spelling — Ruthann is, with 60.0% against Ruthanne's 22.7%.

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 Ruthanne is used

Across 1910–2025, Ruthanne was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 119,230 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 50,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 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. Ruthanne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ruthanne in other languages

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

Ruthann

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

Ruthanne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,505
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 85
Best rank ever
#877
1946
Peak year
1946
90 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,685
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Ruthanne

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

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Names with a curve like Ruthanne

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

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Sibling names for Ruthanne

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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